Alberta has announced there will be a sandhill crane hunting season this fall - a hunt that's been opposed by an environmental group and was previously rejected by the provincial government three times.
The province said in a news release on Sunday that the season launches on September 1 in more than 50 wildlife management units in southern and east-central Alberta.
But Nissa Pettersen of the Alberta Wilderness Association said earlier this year, when the minister told a magazine he'd asked his department consider a hunt, that despite their healthy numbers, the birds reproduce slowly and are rapidly losing the wetlands where they live.
The Alberta Wilderness Association also said that a hunt would threaten the endangered whooping crane, which uses some of the same migration routes and could be mistaken for either bird.
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