The purpose for this project is to address a National Park Service responsibility to implement the Interagency Bison Management Plan (IBMP) by expanding an in-park vaccination program directed by a 2000 Record of Decision (ROD). The need for this action is to preserve a population of native bison as a component of a naturally functioning ecosystem and protect them from a non-native disease (brucellosis).
Did You Know?
There were no wolves in Yellowstone in 1994. The wolves that were reintroduced in 1995 and 1996 thrived and there are now over 300 of their descendents living in the Greater Yellowstone Area.