More than a dozen bison are now being electronically tracked across 100 hectares of rolling hillside at Buffalo Pound Provincial Park in southern Saskatchewan.

Park staff have attached ear tags with GPS capabilities to 14 of the animals at the park, just over 50 kilometres west of Regina.

The solar-powered tags transmit a signal to a nearby communications tower, which then provides the real-time location of the bison to a computer program back at the park's visitor centre every 15 minutes.

People who visit the centre can view the bison location on a dashboard displayed on a TV screen.

Bison appear as white dots on the software program displayed on this TV screen in the park's visitor centre. (Ethan Williams/CBC)

Dave Bjarnason, the park's manager, said Buffalo Pound is the only prov

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