Park rangers in Great Smoky Mountains National Park discovered 33 dead black vultures dumped alongside the Foothills Parkway on April 6, and a month later, investigators still have no public suspect. The National Park Service is now asking anyone who traveled between Chilhowee and Walland that day, with a dash camera, a cell phone, or a memory, to come forward.
The mass dumping, first reported by WATE and published by The Hill, amounts to a potential violation of at least two federal statutes. Black vultures, formally Coragyps atratus, are a federally protected species under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Killing or harming them without a permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is illegal. Dumping anything inside a national park is separately against the law.
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