Research into free-roaming plains bison in Saskatchewan’s Prince Albert National Park says the herd could go extinct from overhunting in fields outside the protected area. “The Sturgeon River bison herd is unique in the sense it still has … this traditional historic relationship with Indigenous people. “It shows a certain outcome under certain conditions,” said Norman Stolle, resource conservation manager with Prince Albert National Park. Simon suggested Parks Canada could also sit down with Indigenous groups to determine how many bison could reasonably be hunted each year. “You don’t want to make the hunt illegal and then have this population of bison exploding, and having 500, 1,000 bison in there,” he said.

Source: National Post June 30, 2019 13:52 UTC