A recently announced province-wide elk hunt has caught hunters off guard.

Now those hunters are raising concerns about safety, access and a lack of consultation.

Read more: • Rolling the dice: Inside a Saskatchewan outfitter’s daily hunt • Sask. adds elk hunting opportunity in effort to limit crop damage • Elk, bear populations on the rise, mule deer decreasing from CWD for hunting season • WATCH: Hundreds of deer and elk cause daily damage to Plunkett farm

The Government of Saskatchewan added an antlerless elk season from Nov. 20 to 27, covering all farmland zones south of the provincial forest, in an attempt to help reduce herd sizes, according to officials.

“We received a phone call last Thursday at about 8:45 a.m. letting us know there would be an announcement coming at 10:

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