More marching ahead down the road to elk disaster-
Court rules for feedlots. By Cory Hatch, Jackson Hole Daily
10th Circuit Court rules in favor of WY state elk feedgrounds on U.S. public lands
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Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan’s Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of “Hiking Idaho.” He also wrote “Beyond the Tetons” and “Backpacking Wyoming’s Teton and Washakie Wilderness.” He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
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These feedgrounds are asking for a major epidemic.
I had not realized deer and elk eat so much shit. This may rule out the saliva transmission model and focus more upon contamination of feed lots with infected feces.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/science/10brain.html?_r=1
jdubya,
I’d better put that up as a story!