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National Parks Service Increasingly Calls on Hunters to Help Cull Non-Native Bison, Mountain Goats
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At the Grand Canyon, park biologists have prescribed lethal removal practices to save a fragile ecosystem overrun by bison. A non-native herd of hundreds of bison has crowded the North Rim of the park since the late 1990s, trampling vegetation and nearly exhausting the limited water sources. To help reduce the size of the herd and conserve the region's native species, officials will begin recruiting experienced hunters next fall to participate in its controversial lethal removal program.
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