GRAND CANYON BISON KILL

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National Park Service calls for volunteers to kill bison at Grand Canyon

The National Park Service (NPS) is looking for volunteers to assist in killing bison on the North Rim of Arizona's Grand Canyon National Park.

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[Recon$$]

I am going to apply, let's see wh a t happens.

 

[Scott E Ames]

Read up before you sign up. Backpacking 700-900 pounds of bison out of the Grand Canyon after you gut and clean the animal yourself is a fairly epic task. I don't know if they would allow mules or horses to pack it out but "no motor vehicles" is stated. You might also be recruited to help others during the required 5 day stay. It also sounds like you might be shooting animals that have been rounded up in a corral.

 

[Recon$$]

Scott you make a few valid points. Love GC and the packing is whatever, but if it was rounded up animals... I'd be bored and not want to partake, considering how the park is, I think you have a very valid point.

 

[adam32+P]

Read up before you sign up. Backpacking 700-900 pounds of bison out of the Grand Canyon after you gut and clean the animal yourself is a fairly epic task. I don't know if they would allow mules or horses to pack it out but "no motor vehicles" is stated. You might also be recruited to help others during the required 5 day stay. It also sounds like you might be shooting animals that have been rounded up in a corral.

Yup! Once I read all the fine print I was like...I'M OUT!

 

[Scott E Ames]

I have hunted them with bow and high power rifle but never shot anything out of a pen???? When I did a rim-to-rim Grand Canyon expedition I barely hauled myself out with a 20# backpack of supplies. Just the backstraps of a bison weigh around 80-90#'s each. Lots of great meat but carrying it up the canyon might be a very strong, young man's game. I am afraid that excludes me on both counts.

 

[Dosh]

I was told a guide service has the boundary area sewed up. Yes you can rightfully go there, but it's reported he has a ton of cameras, blinds and salt out. All that cost money and he and his crew aren't happy when someone intrudes. A good friend hunted this boundary area a few years ago and took a nice bison. He hired the aforementioned guide service.

 

[adam32+P]

I was told a guide service has the boundary area sewed up. Yes you can rightfully go there, but it's reported he has a ton of cameras, blinds and salt out. All that cost money and he and his crew aren't happy when someone intrudes. A good friend hunted this boundary area a few years ago and took a nice bison. He hired the aforementioned guide service.

I'd tell that guide to go pound sand if I'm doing a cull hunt on public land for the NPS.

 

[ka30270]

Any more info on this? I put in for it as I figured it would be the only way I would ever have an opportunity for anything like this. I'm 45 and in good health but have gotten "fluffy" over the past few years. LOL I may be in over my head, I also live at 700' altitude in NC not 8000'.

 

[Elkeater]

I put in. Figured what the heck. Don't figure it'll be much of a "hunt" just because the park service is involved and they couldn't justify it looking like a hunt to the crowd that most certainly does not want this.

On the plus side it may be a unique experience.

 

[lancetkenyon]

The bison are not down in the Canyon. They are in the GC National Park. Big difference.

I applied. Applications due tonight by midnight.

 

[LRNut]

The bison are not down in the Canyon. They are in the GC National Park. Big difference.

I applied. Applications due tonight by midnight.

Yea, I have never seen one down in the canyon itself (but plenty of deer and sheep). I put in but if they are "corralled' that would be a show stopper for me.

 

[lancetkenyon]

Yea, I have never seen one down in the canyon itself (but plenty of deer and sheep). I put in but if they are "corralled' that would be a show stopper for me.

I don't think there is any way NPS would even be able to corral one. They are wild animals, not bred in pens. I have seen them well north of Demotte Park in late summer. They are very much free range, not like the Raymond Ranch herd.

 

[adam32+P]

I just read that over 45,000 hunters applied...