Posted on 10/12/2014 1:30:56 PM PDT by artichokegrower
The 700-pound tule elk’s antlers jutted upward against the backdrop of the sloping, grassy hills and brilliant blue sea along the Point Reyes National Seashore, a magnificent symbol of both conservation success and human-wildlife conflict.
The bull was one of dozens of free-roaming tule elk spotted one recent day enjoying the bucolic Point Reyes peninsula. Their presence on the sweeping hillside pastures represents the convergence of two great Marin County success stories — the preservation of historic agricultural land and the reintroduction of a native species once thought to be extinct.
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Just wait until the cattle start catching brucellosis
Tule Elk are smaller I believe, light tan in color.
They’ll never move me and mine but a lot will move voluntarily. Rent is going to be real cheap after ebola surges through there.
Bovine brucellosis, caused by Brucella abortus, is a global zoonotic disease primarily infecting cattle, in which it produces abortions, retained placentas, male reproductive tract lesions, arthritis, and bursitis. In humans, brucellosis can cause recurrent fever, night sweats, joint and back pain, other influenza-like symptoms, and arthritis. In animals and humans, it can persist for long periods.
During the 1930s, a state–federal cooperative effort was begun to eliminate the disease from livestock in the United States. From an initial estimated prevalence in 1934 of ≈15%, with nearly 50% of cattle herds having evidence of infection (1,2), the United States now has no known infected livestock herds outside of portions of Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, adjacent to Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. This area, referred to as the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA), also encompasses state and federal feeding grounds in Wyoming where elk are fed during the winter.
Considered a spillover disease from cattle to elk and bison, brucellosis now regularly spills back from elk to cattle. Although bison-to-cattle transmission has been demonstrated experimentally and in nature (3,4), it has not been reported in the GYA, probably because of ongoing rigorous management actions to keep cattle and bison spatially and temporally separated.
In 1992, a court case highlighted the potential for transmission of brucellosis from free-ranging wildlife to livestock in the GYA. The litigation concerned brucellosis transmission purportedly from elk or bison to 2 cattle herds in 1988 and 1989 (5). Before those incidents and since ≈1961, brucellosis had been detected in 4 GYA cattle herds, and transmission was attributed to a wildlife source on the basis of epidemiologic investigations (6). From 1990 through 2001, no brucellosis was found in any GYA livestock despite intensive surveillance in some areas, precipitated by court action.
We report a series of recent cases in which brucellosis was transmitted from free-ranging elk to domestic cattle or ranched bison as determined by epidemiologic and microbiological investigations.
Answer:
If the shoe fits wear it!
A shoe would be appropriate in a certain Arizona backside
if their head wasn’t already there.
Anytime you think you are ready, bring it on.
Send me an email and I will forward my home address.
Let me help you out, Mr Airheadzonan. Send your info
private reply and I’ll send you a device to help you
remove the head from where it is stuck. Then we can talk.
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