A few weeks ago, Yellowstone National Park released a draft plan for managing bison in the park. In this dispatch, we answer your questions about the plan and what it means for the future of the herd.

Read the NPS plan here

Submit a comment here or mail your comment to this address:

Superintendent, Attn: Bison Management Plan, PO Box 168, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190

Listen to our first dispatch on the plan here

Learn more about how many bison Yellowstone can support:

The Yellowstone Bison Program’s 2020 Conservation Update (especially “Making Sense of Numbers” on Page 12) 

A paper by other scientists with a different perspective: “Bison limit ecosystem recovery in northern Yellowstone”

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