Grand Canyon to make second run at corralling bison herd
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September 1, 2019
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — 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 reduction plan has been hampered by weather and disagreements over how to kill some of the bison if shipping them off isn...
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