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Please make calls, write emails or whatever it takes to make our voices heard loud and clear!   This abuse to bison needs to end and END NOW!

* Ground the DOL's Helicopters:  Contact the FAA

The Federal Aviation Administration has been hearing your calls. Please continue to make your voice heard to the FAA and file a complaint about how two FAA-registered helicopters are being used by the Montana Department of Livestock to harass and harm members of America's last wild population of bison.  The helicopter disrupts the entire ecosystem and all its inhabitants, including wild bison, grizzly bears, wolves, nesting birds such as Sand Hill cranes, bald and golden eagles, and white pelicans.  Human residents on the western edge of Yellowstone National Park are also disturbed by the use of the helicopter, which flies extremely low through neighborhoods to scare up bison, hazing them towards Yellowstone. Yellowstone National Park has shamefully allowed the DOL's helicopter to intrude within the boundaries of the world's first national park.

  DOL helicopter N1095T.  Photo by Lance Koudele.

TAKE ACTION!  Please contact the FAA to complain about the use of these two helicopters used by the Montana Department of Livestock DOL during bison hazing operations:  N7770X and N1095T.  The co-pilot is DOL agent Rob Tierney.  Mention that the helicopter has been flying low (20 feet or lower at times) on May 14, 15, 27 and 28.  If you have personally witnessed the helicopter hazing bison, your voice is especially needed, but all voices are critical and will make a difference.  The DOL is, after all, using federal tax dollars to fly the helicopter to harass America's last wild bison on National Forest and National Park lands. If enough complaints are received, we may be able to ground the DOL's chopper.

FAA Hotline:
http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/field_offices/fsdo/hln/contact/

Contact FAA Investigator Paul Hurlbert at paul.hurlbert@FAA.gov or call 406-449-5270.