brucellosis in elk Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/brucellosis-in-elk Fri, 24 Jun 2016 12:49:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Yellowstone The Brucellosis Problem http://toursmaps.com/yellowstone-brucellosis-problem.html http://toursmaps.com/yellowstone-brucellosis-problem.html#respond Sun, 26 Jun 2016 05:52:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=207340 The late 1990s saw a dicult problem arise between the agencies responsible for protecting bison and the ranchers who graze herds of cattle on private and public property all around Yellowstone. The basic problem is that cattle in Montana have been certified free of brucellosis, a disease that can cause a pregnant cow to abort her calf, but does not cause abortion in bison. Ranchers fear the disease could be transmitted to cattle when the park’s brucellosis-infected bison migrate to winter feeding grounds outside the park. Following the signing of an interagency agreement in 2000, the National Park Service and

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