Wildlife Disease
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Robert Wharff, executive director of Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife, Wyoming (SFW-WY) recently posted in response to some criticism of the organization on this blog. In the same thread as Nate Helm (SFW-ID) commented, Wharff did likewise. Here is Robert Wharff’s post:
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Yes that’s headline in the Casper Star Tribune in a story that Wyoming has regained its “brucellosis free” status from the federal agency Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). The Star-Tribune said that Jerry Diemer, associate director of veterinary services for APHIS “congratulated the Livestock Board, the governor’s brucellosis task force, the Wyoming Game…
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SFW Wyoming wants to supplement the alfalfa pellets fed elk and bison on the National Elk Refuge at Jackson, WY, with hay. The National Elk Refuge has all the alfalfa pellets it can possibly use. Hay was abandoned in favor of pellets many years ago. Hay is more likely to spread disease because, unlike the…
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A small number of bison escaped from a controversial “quarantine” facility a few miles north of Yellowstone Park. There are stories about it in several Montana papers and a news release from the Buffalo Field Campaign (see the next page for both)
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It’s time to reauthorize the controversial, disease-spreading winter elk feedlots on US Forest Service land in Wyoming. The Forest Service has been doing it annually and they figure they can do so again and get away with it again.
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So far the elk tested from Rex Rammell’s elk shooting farm have tested negative for diseases or the genes of red deer (European elk). Not all have been tested. The escape of his domestic elk was a big controversy a month ago and was covered heavily on this blog and in the main stream media.…
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See article in the Billings Gazette by Mike Stark. Yellowstone Park has signed up Montana State University and the University of California at Davis to study and monitor wildlife diseases that beset the Park or threaten to. It is called the Yellowstone Wildlife Health Program. Wildlife diseases have long been an interest to me as…
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Dear Buffalo Friends, As the buffalo fall migration begins, your tax dollars have been hard at work this week with Department of Livestock (DOL) agents out scouring the landscape for “rougue” buffalo. Of course, any that they find they will attempt to chase back into Yellowstone National Park. As luck would have it, the buffalo…