1ºMitchell Felty nope. His actions did not save the calf. His actions did cause the rangers to euthanize. The calf didn’t need saving. Young animals sometimes struggle to climb out of a river but the calf was on its feet in shallow enough water for the man to push it. This is not a small animal. The calf would eventually get out or mother would return to help. There is no mention of possible drowning and there is no way any single human could save a drowning calf whose in water high enough to drown. Plus the calf ran into traffic after and nearly drowned animals don’t run anywhere
2ºAmy Wisniewski certainly. Here’s how it works:
“Interference by people can cause wildlife to reject their offspring,” the park service said.
After park rangers failed in their attempt to reunite the calf with its herd, they decided to euthanize the calf, as “it was abandoned by its herd and was causing a hazardous situation to approaching cars and people along the roadway,” the park service said.
Park regulations state that people need to stay at least 25 yards away from bison, elk and most other wildlife, and 100 yards away from bears and wolves. Approaching wild animals can affect their well-being and their survival, the park service says.
That’s how it works.
3ºMonica Nicole That's exactly what I said, there is a way and it is established. Why is their quarantine so long? That's because this antiquated program does not use the new CBM Assay for testing for Bruc. Too expensive. Even with their 1970s system, hand rearing bison calves while in quarantine is a viable and well established practice. MANY conservation programs have advanced bio-security measures for just this reason. Like I said; completely unnecessary, just like the entire QUARTER of the herd they culled this year. Does that sound like sound management to you? Give me a break. Elk are literally HUNDREDS of times more likely to carry Bruc and the park treats them with much lower bio-security.
4ºAs sad as it may have been to see that calf drowned, your in their home, that calf would have died had nobody been there. Mothers of some species are known for abandoning or culling the herd to protect the safety of the entire herd, it was drowning, you can't survive in nature by potentially putting the entire herd at risk. Visiting the National Parks should be treated as a privilege not a right. There are far too many people that visit that are destroying landmarks, trampling on rare plant species, and showing that they visit the parks to leave messes and take things and they refuse to take the responsibility of knowing and respecting the animals and environments in the Parks, they are being protected for a reason. While I respect people's opinions, the facts are there are rules and laws against interacting with the animals in the Parks to protect them and you. This guy didn't educate himself on the rules or chose to ignore them, actions have consequences, in many ways.
5ºIt's sad that people are acting like the Park did the right thing. If you think so, you know nothing about the program. Bison are transferred out of the park all the time through the Bison Conservation Transfer Program. This is one of the most notoriously poorly managed conservation herds in the US. They cull for EVERYTHING and annually cull more than 1/5th of the entire 6000 herd. This year alone it was almost 1/4th of the herd. : "This season, the hunt left 1,139 bison dead. Park employees removed 374 animals from the population as well. Eighty-eight were sent to slaughter, four died in captivity and 282 entered in the burgeoning bison conservation transfer program, which returns brucellosis-free bison to tribes around the country."
So don't act like this is some well managed herd: no one believes that. They cull because it's easy.
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6ºShauna Ringquist You have no idea what you are talking about. Bison are transferred out of the park all the time through the Bison Conservation Transfer Program. This is one of the most notoriously poorly managed conservation herds in the US. They cull for EVERYTHING and annually cull more than 1/5th of the entire 6000 herd. This year alone it was almost 1/4th of the herd. : "This season, the hunt left 1,139 bison dead. Park employees removed 374 animals from the population as well. Eighty-eight were sent to slaughter, four died in captivity and 282 entered in the burgeoning bison conservation transfer program, which returns brucellosis-free bison to tribes around the country."
So don't act like this is some well managed herd: no one believes that.
7ºNowhere in the article did it say the calf was drowning for the many who are adding that to the story, taking this lawbreaker’s side. His actions did not save the calf. His actions did cause the rangers to euthanize. The calf didn’t need saving and the lawbreaker didn’t carry a few hundred pounds of calf out of deep water. He also didn’t perform CPR.
The calf merely struggled to get up the bank of the river. Herds cross the water constantly. Young animals sometimes struggle to climb out of a river but the calf was on its feet in shallow enough water for the man to push it. This is not a small animal. The calf would eventually get out or mother would return to help.
There is no mention of possible drowning and there is no way any single human could save a drowning calf whose in water high enough to drown. Plus the calf ran into traffic after and nearly drowned animals don’t run anywhere
8ºfrom a headline point of view, this seems like a angry thing to rage about. But if you read the story, he was saving a calf from drowning. The herd ended up rejecting it after...and no its not because of human smell, thats a wives tail. The herd rejected it before the man saved it, cause it was weak. That is nature.
Yellowstones own website explains all of this, they don't save babies, they call it survival of the fittest and that a baby carcass is food for other animals.
He had good intentions, but still broke the rules. I aint mad at the dude for trying to save a baby.
9ºConnie Henry first let’s not compare humans to animals, that’s super racist.
Secondly, there are sanctuary’s for some species. This particular animal was not a candidate to be moved to a conservation herd for a variety of reasons. This is a herd animal meaning. He needs to live in a large group of his own kind on huge swath of land. These animals carry a very nasty infectious zoonotic disease. This animal, because of the handling it received from this man had imprinted on humans, and even when the Rangers attempted to return it to its herd he kept going back to the road and trying to follow people, which made it a danger to itself and to humans. The moral of the story is not. Everything needs sweater and a pupachino leave the wildlife alone. 
10ºAlicia Krause no. It is not a zoo. The purpose of Yellowstone is to be a slice of the true wild. Yes, it is a managed ecosystem in that they do not allow bison and probably elk to become overpopulated via periodic culls. But there are laws about touching and handling wildlife in the park. And bison cannot be removed from Yellowstone per federal law because of disease that the bison may carry. So. Just because people are there to witness natural processes does not mean they can or should interfere with those processes. Animals live and die in the park every day.