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Wildlife Disease

  • Chronic illness is depressing bighorn sheep numbers, new study suggests

    Jonathan Ratner

    Paper from University of Wyoming PHd student sheds fresh light on a question that’s vexed biologists for decades. By Christine Peterson, WyoFile.com Wandering through the rolling foothills of the Wind River Range near Dubois, lives a bighorn sheep herd famous for both its abundance and scarcity.  A herd that once helped reseed bighorn sheep populations…

  • Camp Creek Elk Feedground 2014: A Valley of Death

    Lloyd Dorsey

    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 hay to…

  • Bighorn sheep deaths north of Park continue to mount

    Ralph Maughan

    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 that 30 are now dead.…

  • Conflict of Interest Allegations Being Investigated at the U of Idaho Caine Veterinary Teaching Center.

    Ken Cole

    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…

  • Distemper devastates Yellowstone wolves

    Ken Cole

    Wolf population has dropped by 27% in Yellowstone. Distemper devastates Yellowstone wolves. Powell Tribune

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