feedground

Last winter our outfit started a 5-year research project of capturing elk on a feedground, testing the cows for brucellosis, and slaughtering any who were found to have antibodies to the disease.

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2006

With the extensive trapping efforts at the Muddy Creek feedground to date, workers have been able to capture 60 percent, 35 percent, and 62 percent of the test-eligible female elk in

unknown title 2009

This would indicate that an exposure event, such as a fetus being aborted on the feedground, likely occurred in the winter / spring of both 2006 and 2007.

unknown title 2009

With the extensive trapping efforts at the Muddy Creek feedground to date, workers have been able to capture 60 percent, 35 percent, and 62 percent of the test-eligible female elk in

unknown title 2009

Cow elk peer over the top of the corral trap at the Fall Creek elk feedground before being moved through the chutes and tested for brucellosis in January, 2008.

unknown title 2009

Members of the Governor's Brucellosis Coordination team determined that capturing a large proportion of the total female elk within a feedground population is imperative to achieve the objective of the test and removal pilot project, which is to get a statistically significant reduction in brucellosis seroprevalence.

unknown title 2009

This would indicate that an exposure event, such as a fetus being aborted on the feedground, likely occurred in the winter / spring of both 2006 and 2007.

unknown title 2009

Cow elk peer over the top of the corral trap at the Fall Creek elk feedground before being moved through the chutes and tested for brucellosis in January, 2008.

unknown title 2009

Members of the Governor's Brucellosis Coordination team determined that capturing a large proportion of the total female elk within a feedground population is imperative to achieve the objective of the test and removal pilot project, which is to get a statistically significant reduction in brucellosis seroprevalence.

unknown title 2009

This would indicate that an exposure event, such as a fetus being aborted on the feedground, likely occurred in the winter / spring of both 2006 and 2007.

unknown title 2009

Dorsey has spent decades as a professional conservationist for the Sierra Club, based in Jackson Hole in Wyoming, and he has pressed the state and federal governments to shut down feedgrounds for deer – where cervids gather and disease can easily spread.

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