This is an amazing and interesting story and I hope the bison gets to enjoy it's life roaming around up there! Those are some amazing creatures, I hope the hunters give it a pass so that others can enjoy it's beauty and these little surprises of showing up on game cameras and on ridge lines.

As far as hunting regulations go, it sounds like there pretty much the same in both countries. I'm sure there's some differences but everything you said is the same here. Very serious penalties and you can lose all your shit!

Here's a quick funny story that just popped in my head. At one point when I was a patrol sergeant, one of the areas I would pass through was extremely populated with deer. We had spot lights all over our cars, especially on the top lightbar. It was very common to pass by a field and notice some eye's sticking out. At that point, I would hit my spot light to look at all the deer in the field. It was a habit more less. One night I did that and I noticed blue lights flashing behind me in the distance. I knew there was no emergency traffic in the area so I thought it was one of my suborniates wanting me to stop to talk or something. I was wrong. I noticed the vehicle was not one of our own police cars but a truck with blue lights. Once the truck caught up to me he turned his blue lights off. We both pulled over in to a church parking lot (I'm confused as hell as to who this person is and what he thinks he's doing.) He was a game warden and he had a remote controlled decoy set up in that field trying to catch people spot lighting lol. Well, he caught me spot lighting for sure! I was amazed at how realistic that damned deer looked lol.