Comment on FR Doc # 2026-09387

The BLM should not revoke bison grazing permits on public lands. In the 1800’s, USA deliberately attempted tribal genocide of multiple Native Americans tribes by the sponsoring of mass bison slaughter throughout the American West. This was carried out to destroy their food supply and cause starvation, to the extreme endpoint that the bison population, which historically numbered in the countless millions, was reduced to a few hundred animals. This is one of most shameful government programs in our Nation’s 250 years history. Now that tribal nations and conservation organizations have attempted to re-establish scattered herds of bison on private and tribal lands for cultural, ceremonial, food production, and conservation purposes, the BLM has shamefully, arbitrarily, and capriciously revoked bison grazing permits on public lands. BLM lands are mandated for multiple uses management, which includes bison grazing and other conservation actions to protect the ecological health of our public land birthright in perpetuity. In Montana, bison outside of Yellowstone NP are classified as livestock, yet BLM still chose to revoke the bison grazing permits held by American Prairie, permits which they held and followed standards and guidelines in good faith and effort for decades. In light of your proposal to revise grazing administration rules, the BLM should: 1.Maintain strong standards for land and water health. 2.Preserve meaningful opportunities for public participation and transparency. 3.Uphold the multiple-use mission of public lands by ensuring conservation remains an equally important use of public lands. 4.Avoid adopting regulations that limit grazing permits only to "production-oriented livestock." 5.Ensure that science, land health, and land management experts guide public land decisions. 6.Maintain opportunities for conservation, tribal buffalo restoration, recreation, and other public benefits on public lands. Please consider that bison are a rightful inhabitant of North America, and existed here for countless thousands of years before the founding of our nation, and deserve a place on America’s public lands. BLM lands are not just for the exclusive use for domestic livestock production.