Tag: pneumonia

December 30, 2020

Effort tracks bighorn, disease on Navajo Nation lands

Navajo tribal authorities and veterinarians and scientists from the Denver Zoo, Colorado State University and the Wildlife Conservation Society teamed up to capture and release 90 bighorn sheep on Navajo...

August 24, 2020

The September issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management

The Journal of Wildlife Management is a benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published eight times annually, it is one of the world’s leading scientific journals covering wildlife science, management...

July 31, 2020

JWM: Better forage, climate help bighorns after pneumonia outbreak

Population size, habitat quality and weather affect bighorn sheep survival after a pneumonia outbreak, but social distancing may also help them ward off the disease. Wildlife managers observed the first...

April 5, 2019

South Dakota chapter student earns award for sheep work

Graduate student Austin Wieseler earned the Outstanding M.S. Graduate Student Award from the South Dakota chapter of The Wildlife Society for his work on examining survival and mortality in the Badlands...

August 9, 2018

Zion bighorns diagnosed with pneumonia

Officials at Utah’s Zion National Park are asking visitors to listen for coughing bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelson). Biologists have say it could be a sign of pneumonia, which for...

February 1, 2018

JWM: Pneumonia ‘spillover’ challenges bighorn efforts

Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) once occupied much of the Western landscape, but in the centuries since European settlers arrived, pneumonia has reduced or wiped out populations and put the species...