Nevertheless, some bison advocacy groups, such as Buffalo Nations, which has offices in both West Yellowstone and Gardiner and seeks to keep bison from leaving Yellowstone, have declared they will not be satisfied as long as any bison are slaughtered. In addition, artificially feeding Yellowstone's bison inside Park boundaries may be illegal, as it violates the Park's policy of managing wildlife naturally within Park boundaries. The rulings by Judge Lovell come as a result of a lawsuit against the National Park Service's bison interim management plan brought by the Inter-Tribal Bison Cooperative, a coalition of 45 tribes who are seeking to restore bison to tribal lands. The previous wolf was killed earlier this month. 38 was wounded at about the same time, and later died from its injuries.
Officials suspect the same person or persons was responsible for both deaths.
Written by NPS Yellowstone Historian Lee Whittlesey, the stories are from his book entitled Yellowstone Place Names . ISA LAKE Hiram Chittenden of the U.S.Corps of Engineers claims to have discovered this lake on the Continental Divide at Craig Pass in 1891. Chittenden, who built many early roads in Yellowstone, was searching for a practical route to locate his new road between Old Faithful and West Thumb. It was not until 1893 that Northern Pacific Railroad officials named the lake for Isabel Jelke of Cincinnati. Little is known about Jelke or about her relationship to Chittenden, the NPRR, and Yellowstone Park.