EDMONTON – Alberta is targeting more elk in the southeastern part of the province in hopes of reducing a growing herd that has been damaging crops around a military base.
Alberta Environment and the Department of National Defence have agreed to let hunters kill up to 500 additional female elk at Canadian Forces Base Suffield in February.
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About 200 elk were brought to the base in the 1990s to introduce grazing animals to the region, but the herd has since swollen to as many as 8,000 animals.
The elk live on the base but jump fences to dine on and trample crops.
Ranchers have been lobbying the provincial and federal governments to hold a roundup to reduce the herd.
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