[8] After a journalist from CKNC-TV interviewed Germa about the issue on the Burwash site,[9] Progressive Conservative MPP Margaret Scrivener accused him of illegal trespassing.

[4] In 1980, a portion of the site was leased to the Regional Municipality of Sudbury as part of a failed attempt to launch an angora goat farm in the area,[4] which became one of the most infamous economic development boondoggles in the city's history.

[13] In 1986, Cambrian College professor David Blake put forward a proposal to buy the site and open a for-profit institution at which prisoners would be given unionized paid work,[14] which was also not pursued.

[15] The Department of National Defence took over 3,000 hectares for use as a military training area;[16] the Burwash Native Peoples Project took over 3,200 hectares for a First Nations-owned sawmill company;[15] the Sudbury Public School Board leased part of the land for an outdoor science education program;[15] the provincial Ministry of Transportation took over on-site gravel reserves for use in road construction;[15] the Ministry of Natural Resources took over 6,200 hectares for timber and wildlife management;[15] and a local country music festival was granted a parcel of the site to serve as its new venue.

[18] In March 2020, Avalon Eco Resort purchased the Camp Bison building and lands around it with the hopes of putting in a hiking trail with access off Ontario Highway 637.

[19] In the early 2000s, various proposals were put forward to reestablish Burwash as an intentional community, which would be built on principles of environmental sustainability;[20] to date, no such project has been formally launched.

[24] A reevaluation of the problem in 1970 revealed that the parasites had in fact travelled the other way, from the indigenous wildlife to the transplanted elk,[24] and the government reinstituted a ban on hunting the animals in the hopes of allowing the population to rebuild again.

[22] The 1997 transfer had some success in rebuilding the elk population, which was cited as one of the reasons for the construction of a grade-separated wildlife crossing over the realigned route of Highway 69 in the area.