The magazine Yellowstone Science, its supporters at the National Park Service, the Yellowstone Science Center, and Yellowstone Forever are clearly proud of their work poisoning water and stocking fish in some of the most precious ecological resources on the planet.

They’ve unabashedly featured photos showing poison being dumped into Yellowstone National Park waters in the magazine, daring environmentalists and conservationists to challenge their wholesale clear-cutting of the aquatic biota in the Park’s headwaters.

What they haven’t discussed in the issue of course are the collateral, cumulative impacts of their activities.  Building dams, dumping poison, killing native frogs, insects, and non-game fishes, all to restock with a monoculture.  It’s very ‘scientific’ and ‘antiseptic’.  The described ‘treatment’ (poisoning) laying wholesale waste to everything from macroinvertebrates, to amphibians, to native fish – an ‘all in’ game of playing God in Yellowstone.

Ballooning multi-year project budgets coupled with huge private fundraising efforts at Yellowstone Forever  have fueled a new zeal to “restore” native fish species using the same tired, 80-year-old fishery management practice of poisoning water and stocking fish. They’ve cleverly dubbed this work “restoration” hoping that no one looks behind the curtain to see the extensive collateral damage being done by their work.

The so-called ‘science’ in this issue of  Yellowstone Science tells us that damages to water quality, insect life, native fish species, and all creatures depending on these ecosystems for their survival, are ‘scientifically’ acceptable. At THI, we strenuously beg to differ.

You can learn more at www.stopriverkilling.org or send your comments to the magazine at yell_science@nps.gov or watch a documentary on the practices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CCPCrIJJts