Posted on 09/12/2017 7:23:35 AM PDT by DFG
The National Park Service plans to thin a herd of bison in the Grand Canyon through roundups and by seeking volunteers who are physically fit and proficient with a gun to kill the animals that increasingly are damaging park resources.
Some bison would be shipped out of the area and others legally hunted on the adjacent forest. Within the Grand Canyon, shooters would be selected through a lottery to help bring the number of bison roaming the far northern reaches of the park to no more than 200 within three to five years.
About 600 of the animals now live in the region, and biologists say the bison numbers could hit 1,500 within 10 years if left uncontrolled.
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Why not just move some to places with no bison?.....................
Why not eat them?
>>Why not just move some to places with no bison?<<
I’m with you. This nation had herds of bison roaming throughout. Why not bring them back. Ship these animals somewhere and repop.
That is what I suppose they will do, but there are many places that have no bison at all that once had thousands.....................
Now I know it would be difficult to herd wild bison into corrals and then trailers, but it isn’t impossible..................
Is moving 600 bison in the northern part of the Grand Canyon park feasible?
Pictures of the slaughtering of these animals taken in the late 1800’s is despicable. Now they want to kill more because they’re trashing places they’ve lived in for millennia?
Yes. We call hem "cities", "towns", "cornfields", "wheatfields", and other similar terms.
The logical course is to introduce wolves and cougars. That would be a green solution
Is this the herd that also roams part of the Navajo reservation?
Just do what the Injuns did. Drive entire herds off of cliffs. The Great Spirit will make more.
I don’t know if they roam the lower valley to the north. In the high country area around the North Rim Park area they are pretty prevalent.
My wife wants to see us truck them to Marin County, California. They can stomp grapes can’t they?
You’d have to dress them on the spot and hike all butchered steaks out of where you were...logistical nightmare without the meat going bad unless done during winter/fall.
I’ll say, though, YUMMY!!!
Moving some of them?
Culling the herd through controlled hunting
I have an idea. The Indians on the reservations in western South Dakota are part of the Sioux nation. They are extremely poor. Give them the right to cull the herd through a controlled stampede. That’s what they used to do to provide food, hides, etc for winter survival.
Well, it’s just an idea that came to me. perhaps it is not possible as I have no idea what the terrain is where the bison are roaming. Maybe it is too mountainous.
I would prefer to see somebody take out the Colin Kaepernick clones as they pop up in the NFL.
The snippet makes it sound like a slaughter but it is just a hunting season done through a lottery type drawing like many other hunting seasons for limited game permits.
As for moving them, most Bison habitat are already filled to capacity. They are not cattle. It takes a large area for a bison herd.
They are smelly, nasty animals. Not domestic cattle.
Beat me to it.
Well put.
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