The Government Won’t Let Me Watch Them Kill Bison, so I’m Suing

This article appears in the May Issue of VICE Magazine.

 
On February 6, lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union, representing me and a conservation nonprofit in Montana called the Buffalo Field Campaign, filed a letter of intent to sue the National Park Service. The letter stated that the agency, which manages some of the country's most majestic public lands, had violated the First Amendment by barring citizens from access to its "Bison Cull Activity" in Yellowstone National Park. Every year, Park Service officials capture and slaughter hundreds of wild bison, but for more than a decade they have refused to allow these activities—conducted on public land by public officials with taxpayer money—to be viewed or documented. "The public," said the ACLU, "has a strong interest in knowing what the government is doing."
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