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.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
Why is it the government freaks out if the grizzly or mountain lion, etc. are on the verge of extinction in a particular area and have less than 1000, but if the animal is not carnivorous they want to help them die? Why is it if a meat eating animal (ie human hunter) has been absent from a state where there used to be many, does the govn bring animals in from places like Canada to repopulate, but they don’t have the same concern for herbivores or omnivores?
I’m with you. This nation had herds of bison roaming throughout. Why not bring them back. Ship these animals somewhere and repop.
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Nobody would want them. They are not pure bison. Brucellosis would be an issue.
On the other hand, they would be delicious.
slaughtering of these animals by the Indians....
Is this what they call a canned hunt?
Have you ever seen the picture of a special train bringing out hunters (and I use the term loosely since they didn’t hunt) just to shoot buffalo? Piles and piles of dead buffalo shot just for amusement. The plains tribes killed for food and used the skins for shelter, they didn’t kill for sport. And saying all this: what’s with your Sacajaweau nym?
Yep ... right up the “breadbasket” of North America. You can get out in the middle of that, and have nothing but fields of grain as far as you can see in all directions.
I’ll stay away from that area.
Gained a few pounds lately and dont want to be taken out while grazing, er, walking around :)
Heh heh - so true. Cull the herd.
Most of their territory is populated now. Do you have room for a couple in your backyard?
I meant on federal lands, parks, etc.........
I don’t think that bison was ‘wild’......................
Like, for example, the Grand Canyon National Park which is apparently overpopulated with them. Yellowstone is also apparently overpopulated. The article mentions capturing some and relocating them, so they're already doing what you seem to want. The rest? Bison is good eats.
Bless the beasts and the children.
That historic range includes WEST Virginia ... a farmer down the road from me has a small herd of bison; maybe a couple of dozen or so. He sells bison meat occasionally.
I’ve eaten buffalo and it is good, very lean.
I was raised to absolutely never waste food or harm an animal you were not preparing to eat.
This seems like it is both of those things.........
Can’t they put them in a zoo?
Since you are at best semi-literate and at worst a full blown marxist it behooves me to point out to the rest of the people on this thread that Bison were destructive to agriculture and to the railroads. In fact, the railroads paid a bounty on those carcasses.
These were hunts to get rid of what the railroad companies considered pests. The people shooting the bison got paid
SkyDancer may now return to promoting the nineteen sixties era revisionist history dreamed up by the marxist denizens of our university system.
Hunters usually eat the animals they hunt. I don't see where you're getting the idea that the bison meat is going to be wasted.
Of course, there's also the matter of pest control. I don't eat mice, rats, or groundhogs. For example. I do kill them when they invade certain parts of my property. Around here, deer border on pest-hood, but laws to the contrary notwithstanding, I wouldn't just shoot them and let them rot. Venison is also good eats.
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