Bison in Yellowstone National Park. Photo: Jim Pearce, National Park Service.

Yellowstone bison have flourished for more than 10,000 years. In the 1830s settler-colonialists and other two-legged parasites nearly wiped them out. Now, almost 200 years later, the old cognitive model, Manifest Destiny, possesses a new plundering herd of uber-wealthy, neo-colonialists engaged in what can best be described as slow-motion domestication, or in other words, buffalo genocide.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, the BLM (Bureau of Land Management), National Park Service, APHIS-USDA (Animal Plant Health Inspection Service), and U.S. Forest Service-USDA are working in lockstep to seize/plunder grass and land that sustains wild Yellowstone bison. Their aim is to boost domestic livestock production on private and tribal lands in Montana and ‘juice’ commercial North American buffalo-meat markets.

The scene in 2026 is ridiculously unreasonable, highly dubious, and sorrowful. The federal government’s insistence that it’s “…following the law and putting Montanans first” is on its face is laughable and miserably inadequate. Laugh out loud? Or you can fight back tears and grieve for the last wild buffalo herds being systematically slaughtered throughout Yellowstone National Park and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Again! We have all watched this tragic spaghetti western rerun before, ad nauseum. Government bureaucrats talk in riddles and tongues.

Example #1: Abduction, Quarantine, Extraordinary Rendition

Yellowstone National Park’s Bison Conservation Transfer Program operates like the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program following 9/11. Wild buffalo are snatched from Yellowstone Park, families are torn apart, individuals are tortured in federal prison (quarantine pens) for years and disappeared from their ancestral homelands forever.

Apparently, the government’s aim is to objectify (convert public wildlife and habitat into marketable private property) and tame wild Yellowstone bison and the ecosystem upon which they depend. Once domesticated from years of physical and mental abuse in captivity, separated from their homeland and families, these highly intelligent, sentient beings are converted into a cold-blooded commodity, or things to be marketed like cattle, sheep, or human sex slaves – to meet man’s demand for red meat.

This government program is all about political and social appearances and market-based faux environmentalism. “Big........

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