Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Brucellosis Wildlife And Conflicts In The Greater Yellowstone Area
Download Brucellosis Wildlife And Conflicts In The Greater Yellowstone Area full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Brucellosis Wildlife And Conflicts In The Greater Yellowstone Area ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area by : National Research Council
Download or read book Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-08-13 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brucellosis, a bacterial disease, was first noted in the Greater Yellowstone Area in 1917 and has been a chronic presence there since then. This book reviews existing scientific knowledge regarding brucellosis transmission among wildlife, particularly bison, elk, and cattle, in the Greater Yellowstone Area. It examines the mechanisms of transmission, risk of infection, and vaccination strategies. The book also assesses the actual infection rate among bison and elk and describes what is known about the prevalence of Brucella abortus among other wildlife.
Author :National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher :National Academies Press ISBN 13 :030945834X Total Pages :211 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (94 download)
Book Synopsis Revisiting Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Download or read book Revisiting Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brucellosis is a nationally and internationally regulated disease of livestock with significant consequences for animal health, public health, and international trade. In cattle, the primary cause of brucellosis is Brucella abortus, a zoonotic bacterial pathogen that also affects wildlife, including bison and elk. As a result of the Brucellosis Eradication Program that began in 1934, most of the country is now free of bovine brucellosis. The Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA), where brucellosis is endemic in bison and elk, is the last known B. abortus reservoir in the United States. The GYA is home to more than 5,500 bison that are the genetic descendants of the original free-ranging bison herds that survived in the early 1900s, and home to more than 125,000 elk whose habitats are managed through interagency efforts, including the National Elk Refuge and 22 supplemental winter feedgrounds maintained in Wyoming. In 1998 the National Research Council (NRC) issued a report, Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area, that reviewed the scientific knowledge regarding B. abortus transmission among wildlifeâ€"particularly bison and elkâ€"and cattle in the GYA. Since the release of the 1998 report, brucellosis has re-emerged in domestic cattle and bison herds in that area. Given the scientific and technological advances in two decades since that first report, Revisiting Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area explores the factors associated with the increased transmission of brucellosis from wildlife to livestock, the recent apparent expansion of brucellosis in non-feedground elk, and the desire to have science inform the course of any future actions in addressing brucellosis in the GYA.
Book Synopsis Yellowstone National Park (N.P.), Brucellosis Remote Vaccination Program for Bison by :
Download or read book Yellowstone National Park (N.P.), Brucellosis Remote Vaccination Program for Bison written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Brucellosis, Wildlife and Conflicts in the Greater Yellowstone Area by : E. Tom Thorne
Download or read book Brucellosis, Wildlife and Conflicts in the Greater Yellowstone Area written by E. Tom Thorne and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflicts between wildlife and cattle in western Wyoming probably began to occur when the first agricultural settlers arrived in Jackson Hole in 1884. At that time, many traditional winter ranges of elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) were converted to hay fields for cattle feed during winter or to town sites, such as Jackson. In somecases, elk migration routes to historic winter ranges were blocked by a multitude of fences, roadways, communities, ranches and hunters. In 1910, the situation became so acute in Jackson Hole that the Wyoming Legislature appropriated $5,000 to feed elk near Jackson. This was done in response to complaints about hungry elk consuming hay stored for cattle feed and in anticipation of excessive elk deaths due to winter starvation. In 1912, federal legislation created the National Elk Refuge, and winter feeding of elk on an artificial diet of hay was well on its way to becoming a poor substitute for native winter ranges and incomplete resolution of ek and cattle conflicts (Boyce 1989). Marked changes also were occurring within and on the fringes of the rest of the vast wilderness area occupying parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho that is now known as the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA). In fact, Congress had already (1872) designated Yellowstone National Park as the nation's first National Park in order to protect the numerous and unique natural wonders of the area, including wildlife. Congress also designated much of the land adjacent to Yellowstone as the first National Forest Preserve. Simultaneously, cattle grazing was becoming one of the regions important economic mainstays (Keiter 1991).
Book Synopsis Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area by : Brant A. Schumaker
Download or read book Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area written by Brant A. Schumaker and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elk (Cervus elaphus) and bison (Bison bison) of the Greater Yellowstone area are the last known reservoir of bovine brucellosis (Brucella abortus) in the United States. domestic cattle occasionally contract the disease while grazing in areas where infected wild ungulates have aborted their fetuses or have given birth. Cases of brucellosis in cattle trigger costly quarantine, testing, and culling procedures. Government agencies and stakeholders, therefore, allocate valuable resources to prevent wildlife-to-cattle transmission. Scientific uncertainty about the biology, epidemiology, and economics of brucellosis makes it difficult to determine the length to which society should go to control it or the combination of management activities they should use to achieve the desired level of control. Research over the last decade has generated new information about brucellosis and alternative approaches for management. Stakeholders and decision makers must syhnthesize this growing body of information and re-assess current brucellosis goals and management strategies. Economic principles provide an objective framework in which to do this.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :132 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (17 download)
Book Synopsis Brucellosis Afflicting Bison; Protection of Wild Horses; and Operation by State Employees of National Parks by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation
Download or read book Brucellosis Afflicting Bison; Protection of Wild Horses; and Operation by State Employees of National Parks written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bovine Brucellosis in Elk by : E. Tom Thorne
Download or read book Bovine Brucellosis in Elk written by E. Tom Thorne and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bovine brucellosis is prevalent in elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) of northwestern Wyoming and occurs rarely in elk of northern Yellowstone National Park and some neighboring parts of Montana. Occurrence of brucellosis in Wyoming is a consequence of supplemental winter feeding as a substitute for natural winter ranges, to control depredation, and reduce winter mortalities. Presence of the disease in elk of northern Yellowstone may reflect their association with infected bison and interchange with fed elk populations. A cooperative brucellosis eradication program has made considerable progress toward eliminating the causative organism from the United States; cattle in all three states surrounding the Greater Yellowstone Area are now free of the disease. With eradication possible in the not too distant future, wildlife populations harboring brucellosis are being placed on a bio-political collision course with the brucellolsis eradication program, state and Federal livestock industries, and western grazing practices. Extreme solutions are depopulation of elk and bison (Bison bison) within the Greater Yellowstone Area on one hand and elimination of cattle grazing from the ecosystem on the other, neither being acceptable. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has chosen more moderate, yet effective, methods of dealing with the problem including vaccination of fed elk, attempting to reduce reliance of elk on supplemental feed through habitat improvement and acquisition, and maintaining separation between cattle and elk during high risk transmission periods. However, cooperative efforts by all involved parties throughout the Greater Yellowstone Area will be required to minimize impacts to all affected resources and interest groups.
Book Synopsis Greater Yellowstone's Bison by : Robert B. Keiter
Download or read book Greater Yellowstone's Bison written by Robert B. Keiter and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greater Yellowstone region's bison-brucellosis controversy has triggered troublesome proposals giving federal and state agriculture agencies jurisdiction over wildlife to eradicate a domestic livestock disease. Many of the region's bison (Bos bison) and elk (Cervus elaphus) carry the bacterium Brucella abortus, which can cause brucellosis. Local livestock officials fear bison and elk could transmit brucellosis to domestic livestock. jeopardizing state brucellosis class-free status. However, no cases of such transmission in an open range setting have been verified scientifically. Various federal and state agencies have jurisdiction over the region's wildlife and livestock; these agencies are having real difficulty reaching consensus on how to address brucellosis in the wildlife populations. Montana and Idaho recently vested state livestock officials with jurisdiction over bison leaving Yellowstone National Park (YNP), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal, Plant, and Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has indicated it may propose regulations asserting jurisdiction over bison. An interim bison management plan, the result of a recent court settlement, provides for the National Park Service (NPS) to participate in capturing, testing, and slaughtering Yellowstone's bison, but makes no provision for addressing brucellosis in elk. The region's brucellosis problem could be adequately addressed through a risk management disease control policy rather than a costly and perhaps fruitless eradication effort. Such an approach can be implemented without the unwelcome precedent of livestock officials taking jurisdiction over wildlife.
Book Synopsis Economic and Policy Implications of Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area by : Donald M. McLeod
Download or read book Economic and Policy Implications of Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area written by Donald M. McLeod and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brucellosis eradication in livestock has been a long and arduous process, but it appears the 1998 target date set by the State-Federal Cooperative Brucellosis Eradication Program may be well within reach. This effort, which began over 50 years ago, has made dramatic strides. During the 1950's, approximately 124,000 cattle herds were under quarantine because of brucellosis. The number of quarantined herds dropped below 1,000 by 1990 and fell below 100 in 1995 (Burgess, Russell, USDA/APHIS, personal communication, August 1995). Now that the livestock eradication program is nearing completion, more attention is being placed upon brucellosis in wildlife because of possible wildlife and livestock interactions. This focus is presently located in the Greater Yellowstone Area. The Greater Yellowstone Area consists of Yellowstone National Park and the surrounding area in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Because bison and elk, principal carriers of brucellosis in wildlife, are an enduring symbol of the pristine environment in the Greater Yellowstone Area, anxiety is mounting concerning possible repercussions any solution may have upon wildlife.
Download or read book Brucellosis written by D. J. Schubert and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On the Origin of Brucellosis in Bison of Yellowstone National Park by : Margaret Mary Meagher
Download or read book On the Origin of Brucellosis in Bison of Yellowstone National Park written by Margaret Mary Meagher and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ecology of Large Mammals in Central Yellowstone by : Robert A. Garrott
Download or read book The Ecology of Large Mammals in Central Yellowstone written by Robert A. Garrott and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2008-11-25 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an authoritative work on the ecology of some of America’s most iconic large mammals in a natural environment - and of the interplay between climate, landscape, and animals in the interior of the world’s first and most famous national park.Central Yellowstone includes the range of one of the largest migratory populations of bison in North America as well as a unique elk herd that remains in the park year round. These populations live in a varied landscape with seasonal and often extreme patterns of climate and food abundance. The reintroduction of wolves into the park a decade ago resulted in scientific and public controversy about the effect of large predators on their prey, a debate closely examined in the book. Introductory chapters describe the geography, geology and vegetation of the ecosystem. The elk and bison are then introduced and their population ecology described both pre- and post– wolf introduction, enabling valuable insights into the demographic and behavioral consequences for their ungulate prey. Subsequent chapters describe the wildlife-human interactions and show how scientific research can inform the debate and policy issues surrounding winter recreation in Yellowstone. The book closes with a discussion of how this ecological knowledge can be used to educate the public, both about Yellowstone itself and about science, ecology and the environment in general. Yellowstone National Park exemplifies some of the currently most hotly debated and high-profile ecological, wildlife management, and environmental policy issues and this book will have broad appeal not only to academic ecologists, but also to natural resource students, managers, biologists, policy makers, administrators and the general public. Unrivalled descriptions of ecological processes in a world famous ecosystem, based on information from 16 years of painstaking field work and collaborations among 66 scientists and technical experts and 15 graduate studies Detailed studies of two charismatic North American herbivore species – elk and bison Description of the restoration of wolves into central Yellowstone and their ecological interactions with their elk and bison prey Illustrated with numerous evocative colour photographs and stunning maps
Book Synopsis Brucellosis, Bison, Elk, and Cattle in the Greater Yellowstone Area by : E. Tom Thorne
Download or read book Brucellosis, Bison, Elk, and Cattle in the Greater Yellowstone Area written by E. Tom Thorne and published by Falcon Guides. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Brucellosis in Elk and Bison in the Greater Yellowstone Area by : Terry John Kreeger
Download or read book Brucellosis in Elk and Bison in the Greater Yellowstone Area written by Terry John Kreeger and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem by : Robert B. Keiter
Download or read book The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem written by Robert B. Keiter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-04-05 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1872, Congress designated Yellowstone National Park as the world's first National Park. In this book, various experts in science, economics and law discuss key resource management issues in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, and how humans should interact with the environment of this area.
Book Synopsis Yellowstone’s Wildlife in Transition by : P. J. White
Download or read book Yellowstone’s Wildlife in Transition written by P. J. White and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's first national park, Yellowstone is a symbol of nature's enduring majesty and the paradigm of protected areas across the globe. But Yellowstone is constantly changing. How we understand and respond to events that are putting species under stress, say the authors of Yellowstone's Wildlife in Transition, will determine the future of ecosystems that were millions of years in the making. With a foreword by the renowned naturalist E. O. Wilson, this is the most comprehensive survey of research on North America's flagship national park available today. Marshaling the expertise of over thirty contributors, Yellowstone's Wildlife in Transition examines the diverse changes to the park's ecology in recent decades. Since its creation in the 1870s, the priorities governing Yellowstone have evolved, from intensive management designed to protect and propagate depleted large-bodied mammals to an approach focused on restoration and preservation of ecological processes. Recognizing the importance of natural occurrences such as fires and predation, this more ecologically informed oversight has achieved notable successes, including the recovery of threatened native species of wolves, bald eagles, and grizzly bears. Nevertheless, these experts detect worrying signs of a system under strain. They identify three overriding stressors: invasive species, private-sector development of unprotected lands, and a warming climate. Their concluding recommendations will shape the twenty-first-century discussion over how to confront these challenges, not only in American parks but for conservation areas worldwide. Highly readable and fully illustrated, Yellowstone's Wildlife in Transition will be welcomed by ecologists and nature enthusiasts alike.
Book Synopsis Interagency Bison Management Plan for State of Montana and Yellowstone National Park by :
Download or read book Interagency Bison Management Plan for State of Montana and Yellowstone National Park written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
