In the two years since the Grand Canyon approved a plan to reduce the number of bison roaming in the national park, the herd has only grown in size.
No one is sure exactly how many of the massive animals call far northern Arizona home because they’re hard to count amid the Ponderosa pine trees, but it’s in the hundreds. Left unchecked, the herd could reach 1,500 in several years, severely damaging the landscape and water resources, the park says.
The National Park Service released a plan in September 2017 that called for a mix of corralling the animals near the highway that leads to the Grand Canyon’s North Rim, and shooting a certain number of bison inside and outside the park. It has made no significant progress on guidelines for lethal options.
Officials hoped to ship out 50 animals in 2018, but the bison left, traveling about a mile outside the park boundary, bison project manager Miranda Terwilliger said late last year.The goal is to reduce the bison herd to 200 within five years, Balsom said. Under a 2001 agreement between federal and state officials, thousands of bison attempting to migrate to winter feeding grounds outside Yellowstone have been captured and sent to slaughter. Others are killed by state-licensed hunters or Native Americans who hold treaty rights to harvest the animals.
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