Hunting in Banff National Park

How am I seeing this on US news before Canadian news?
I saw it on our news about a month ago. Not sure why it took that long since the hunt was in October. We knew it was going to go on. And is this a precedent for other species in parks?
https://www.rmoutlook.com/banff/par...ous-bison-hunt-in-banff-national-park-9576391
There's a 240-square-kilometre special zone in the Upper Red Deer for protection of wandering buffalo. Not much to hunting them but I like the meat. I highly doubt regular Alberta hunters will ever get a draw no matter how big the herd gets.
 
What do the Numbered Treaties say about hunting in National Parks? And what of the groups in BC that are not Parties to the Numbered Treaties?

Realistically the National Parks are mostly unoccupied Crown Land.
 
Banff taking in more money than it needs to operate and being a Canadian citizen and my paying the annual pass means it is a tax. A tax is a tax.
Another example of Alberta subsidizing.
If you don't wanna pay, don't go. Different. Free entry July 1 each year. And it's free all this year for illegal migrants. "Who loves ya baby"?
 
Not this white man. I was not there then. Things have changed a bunch. Those arguments about the 1800's ARE OLD, really old and not pertinant.
Whites are trying to save things now and not dropping them over buffalo jumps. Hey we do not want to talk about cruelty in those days, do we.
 
that's rich considering the "whites" wholesale slaughtered the Buffalo to extinction in the first place.
Never said they didn't, but the "natives" are quite literally creating 2 sets of rules...it does nothing but increase division and resentment towards them. How "they" don't realize that is beyond me.
 
that's rich considering the "whites" wholesale slaughtered the Buffalo to extinction in the first place.
You know that isn't true right? How many hides did it take to make a teepee and how long did the cover last? Preferentially killing cows during the calving season is just about the worst management system there is.
 
There weren't enough hunters of any ethnicity to kill off those massive herds, diseases brought over by domestic cattle killed the lion's share of bison.
 
There weren't enough hunters of any ethnicity to kill off those massive herds, diseases brought over by domestic cattle killed the lion's share of bison.
Exactly. There was some tick born disease from Texas longhorns that got a lot of the plains bison infected, and they believe it was brucellosis from foreign import beef that got the northern wood buffalo dropping in heaps.
 
Attended an event last Friday where a presentation about the Banff bison thing was made. I asked the presenter how they could justify hunting in a National Park ? He was lost for words, but the audience was on my side. ;)
 
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^That would be easy if the presenter knew any of Banff's history. The park was set up by CP rail as a means to pay off the debt incurred by construction of the Transcontinental. Many of the lakes had a ton of food in them but no predators and they responded phenomenly well to stocking. Tons of big animals to shoot as well. So it was advertised to wealthy people as a sportsmen's paradise and they came in droves. Obviously things are different now as most of the place is catch and release or closed to fishing altogether, as for hunting? Ha! Too bad I used to love it there.
 
Attended an even.t last Friday where a presentation about the Banff bison thing was made. I asked the presenter how they could justify hunting in a National Park ? He was lost for words, but the audience was on my side. ;)

Where was this event and who was the host speaker? a Kindergarten show and tell..pretty vague statement






sounds like your spreading
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I saw it on our news about a month ago. Not sure why it took that long since the hunt was in October. We knew it was going to go on. And is this a precedent for other species in parks?
https://www.rmoutlook.com/banff/par...ous-bison-hunt-in-banff-national-park-9576391
There's a 240-square-kilometre special zone in the Upper Red Deer for protection of wandering buffalo. Not much to hunting them but I like the meat. I highly doubt regular Alberta hunters will ever get a draw no matter how big the herd gets.
Actually I know a "regular guy" up here who got drawn and was successful.
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