Suspected to have come from a domestic goat- The entire population of bighorn sheep in the Mohave National Preserve could die from pneumonia transmitted, probably, by a lone domestic Angora […]
CNN asks “Is Cat Poop dangerous?”
Yes, indeed it is from cats that roam outside- We won’t belabor this because we have discussed the dangers of the parasites in cat scat many times here. It is […]
US Fish and Wildlife Service sued by Western Watersheds over the legal implication of grizzly bear disappearance
USFWS called “wrong” to say no grizzlies had been killed on Sheep Experiment Station on Idaho/Montana border, Continental Divide Area Boise, ID. On May 17, 2013 the Western Watersheds Project, Cottonwood […]
Chronic Wasting Disease closes in on Yellowstone
Fatal ungulate disease advances as Wyoming game managers continue on in denial- Our recent story on chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Wisconsin now has a followup in the treasured Greater […]
Presence of nearby domestic sheep ends plan to reintroduce bighorn to Bridger Mountains north of Bozeman
Disease ridden domestic sheep killed off the bighorn in early 1900s and pose the same disease barrier today- As has been written so many times, domestic sheep are full of […]
Bad summer in U.S. for zoonoses
West Nile, Hantavirus, Plague- A zoonosis is an infectious disease transmitted between species, especially from animals to humans and vice versa. New strains of influenza are usually a zoonosis having […]
West Nile Virus is now present in southwest Idaho
First day of annual testing shows the dangerous disease in local mosquitoes- Throughout most of the 20th Century in the United States getting bitten by mosquitoes was an irritation, sometimes […]
Fox are very important controlling Lyme Disease
Small canine predator chows down on white footed mice- People have sometimes blamed white-tailed deer as a factor spreading this growing menace, but a new study “Deer, predators, and the […]