State managers had to rethink their plan for this year’s hunt after about 180 bison died of starvation last winter. They weren’t able to eat because storms dumped an almost impenetrable layers of snow and ice atop the grass and sedges they feed on.
The hunt is by far the most popular for any game species in the state. Hunters submitted more than 44,000 applications last year in hopes of drawing a permit to harvest one of 120 animals the state had planned to make available this year.
Schmidt says state managers had to rethink their plan for this year’s hunt after finding out that about 180 bison, or nearly a third of the 600-animal herd,Schmidt says the bison weren’t able to eat because storms dumped“Last winter was a winter like we’ve never seen,” he said. “And it was really theSchmidt said in an interview Thursday that the magnitude of the die-off became evident last spring.
A half-dozen bison looking for food wandered several times into the driveway of a home in the agricultural area south of Delta Junction in February. Area farmers have long complained about bison raiding their farms’ stores of livestock feed and causing other damage, so the state Fish and Game Department set a game-management goal of keeping the Delta Junction herd down to about 360 animals.
“Normally, they’d be hunting all the way ’til March,” he said. “But this time it was, y’know, ‘Get up here, wham, bam, get it done.’ Y’know, no messing around kind of deal.”
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