Alaska curtails bison hunt after dozens drown in pond

Wildlife officials in Alaska have limited hunting permits on bison after dozens of the large ungulates drowned in a pond. Wildlife managers were tracking the bison (Bison bison bison) using GPS collars in central Alaska south of Delta Junction when a number of the collars stopped working in the spring. When one finally sent out a signal, staff with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game went to investigate and found nearly 40 dead and decomposing bison in and around a small pond. They speculated that the animals may have fallen through thin ice and drowned. As a result, the state agency reduced the permits for bison harvest by 56, allowing only 79 permits for harvest, and restricted harvest to males.

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