Other than local closures to protect Whooping Cranes, Saskatchewan seems to manage just fine with a Sandhill crane season.
I won't say that there has never been a Whooper shot, because there has - but it is rare indeed.
Still, having the major migration route through Last Mountain and a stop over in Radisson area, we still manage to harvest Sandhill Cranes without endangering protected Whoopers.
I suspect history and politics in play in Alberta, rather than biologically based management of the species.
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