Lethal foot rot on a crowded Wyoming elk feedground-
In late April, 2014, travelers on U.S. Highway 191 along the Hoback River south of Jackson Hole reported seeing staggering, emaciated elk and elk carcasses. Just out of the public’s view, in nearby Camp Creek, is an 80-acre elk feedground where the Wyoming Game and Fish Department feeds […]
Continue Reading →Yes, it looks like pneumonia. It usually is.
It comes from domestic sheep most of the time.
On December 15, Ken Cole reported in the News, “Bighorn Sheep Near the North Entrance of Yellowstone National Park are Dying from Pneumonia.”
Well, it continues. Now Brett French reports in the Missoulian […]
Continue Reading →Questions about who knew what and when they knew it.
The controversy over whether domestic sheep transmit deadly pathogens to bighorn sheep seems to have been settled.
At issue now is whether studies were intentionally suppressed by staff of the Caine Veterinary Teaching Center in Caldwell Idaho, whether leadership at the lab had cultivated a […]
Continue Reading →Wolf population has dropped by 27% in Yellowstone.
Distemper devastates Yellowstone wolves.
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