YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — Yellowstone National Park (YNP) announced Wednesday that 116 bison from the park had been transferred to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Poplar, Montana as part of the Bison Conservation Transfer Program.
Four females, four calves and 108 males were transferred during the week of Feb. 5 by National Park Service staff and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, according to the announcement.
“Since 2019, a total of 414 Yellowstone bison have been transferred to the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes at Fort Peck,” YNP said in a statement. “Nearly all of those bison and their offspring have then been further distributed to 26 Tribes across 12 states in partnership with the InterTribal Buffalo Council.”
See the park’s Bison Management website for more information.
