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Proceedings of the 24th Biennal Symposium
Anchorage, Alaska
Table of Contents
Introduction, Sponsors, Guidelines and Foreword
DISEASE ECOLOGY
Evaluation of Long-Term Patterns of Mycoplasma Ovipneumoniae Carriage in Bighorn Sheep and the Implications for Test and Remove Protocols
Brittany L. Wagler, Rachel A. Smiley, Jack N. Gavin, Tony W. Mong, Corey Class, Alyson B. Courtemanch, Doug McWhirter, Cheyenne Stewart, Daryl Lutz, Zach Gregory, Patrick Hnilicka, Arthur Lawson, Dean Clause, Brandon M. Scurlock, Rusty C. Kaiser, William H. Edwards, Jessica E. Jennings-Gaines, Jennifer L. Malmberg, and Keith L. Monteith
Optimizing Mycoplasma Ovipneumoniae “Test and Remove” Management to Restore Bighorn Sheep Populations in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington
Frances Cassirer, Jana Ashling, Hollie Miyasaki, William Moore, Dennis Newman, Scott D. Peckham, Brian Ratliff, Erin Wampole, and Brent Wolf
Using Social Grouping and Population Substructure to Improve Test and Remove Management of Bighorn Sheep
Scott D. Peckham, Frances Cassirer, Hollie Miyasaki, William Moore, Brian Ratliff, and Erin Wampole
Exploring the Geneflow-Disease Trade-Off within Bighorn Sheep Metapopulations
Lauren E. Ricci, Mike Cox, and Kezia R. Manlove
Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Microbiome and Associations with Host Health and Disease States
Patricia C. Brewster, Michele Lovara, Todd Nordeen, Jeff Tillery, Sean Ryder, Katheryn P. Huyvaert, and William Severud
Johne’s Disease in a Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep in Southeastern Wyoming, USA
Samantha E. Allen, Jacqueline P. Kurz, Teal Cufaude, Hally Killion, Jessica Jennings-Gaines, Peach Van Wick, and Kerry Sondgeroth
A Real Pain in the Butt: Gastrointestinal Parasites Impact Horn Growth of Rocky Mountain BighornSheep
Tanisha C. Henry, Peter Neuhaus, and Kathreen E. Ruckstuhl
Bacterial Strain Typing in a Population of Bighorn Sheep Experiencing Polymicrobial Lamb Pneumonia
Karen A. Fox, Christopher A. W. Macglover, and Allen E. Vitt
Advancing Diagnostic Precision through MALDI-TOF and Whole Genome Sequencing
Christopher A. W. Macglover, Jessica Jennings-Gaines, Hally Killion, and Kerry S. Sondgeroth\
Bighorn Sheep Paranasal Sinus Tumors: Uncovering Changes within a Respiratory Environment
Steven E. Edmonds, Karen A. Fox, and Kathryn P. Huyvaert
MOVEMENT ECOLOGY
Movements of Bighorn Rams in Extant Populations
Ian F. Grazeley and Mark S. Boyce
Exploratory and Resident Movements of Translocated Rocky Mountain Goats in Oregon
Andrew J. Walch, Corey Heath, Seth Harju, Jessica Clark, and Don Whittaker
Diverse Migration Patterns and Seasonal Habitat Use of Stone’s Sheep (Ovis dalli stonei)
Grace E. Enns, Bill Jex, and Mark S. Boyce
Identifying Mineral Lick Locations from Movement Data
Ian F. Grazeley, Wenhao Yin, and Mark S. Boyce
PREDATION AND HARVEST
Exploring How the Environment Shapes Predator-Prey Dynamics in the Sierra Nevada
Elizabeth A. Siemione, Yasaman N. Shakeri, Thomas R. Stephenson, and Kezia R. Manlove
Maximizing Utility of Compulsory Registration for Harvest-Based Monitoring of Bighorn Sheep in Alberta
Nils Anderson and Grant Chapman
Peer Pressure as an Effective Tool for Reducing Harvest of Female Mountain Goats
Steve W. Bethune
The Potential for Rapid Evolution in Response to Exploitation-Induced Selection
Michael B. Morrissey, René Malenfant, Fanie Pelletier, Dave Coltman, and Marco Festa-Bianchet
NUTRITION AND DEMOGRAPHY
Nutritional Paradoxes in Wild Sheep, Goats, and Other Northern Ungulates
Kristin Denryter, Katherine L. Parker, and Robert G. White
Female Dall’s Sheep Summer Nutrition in the Chugach Mountains, Alaska
Luke Metherell, Tom Lohuis, Todd Brinkman, and Lara Horstmann
The Role of Nutrition and Disease on Lamb Survival
Rachel A. Smiley, Brittany L. Wagner, Jack C. Gavin, Alyson B. Courtemanch, Doug McWhirter, Daryl Lutz, Zach Gregory, Patrick Hnilcka, Arthur Lawson, Dean Clause, Brandon M. Scurlock, Rusty C. Kaiser, William H. Edwards, Jessica E. Jennings-Gaines, Cynthia Downs, Eaqan Chaundhry, Jennifer L. Mahlberg, and Kevin L. Monteith
Extreme Environmental Events and Transient Dynamics Shape Multiple Population Trajectories in Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep
Thomas R. Stephenson and Robert C. Klinger
Rates And Causes of Ewe and Ram Mortality in the Chugach, Talkeetna and North Wrangell Mountains, Alaska, 2009–2022
Tom Lohuis, Kyle Smith, Chris Brockman, Heidi Hatcher, and Jeff Wells
HUMAN-WILDLIFE CONFLICTS AND BIGHORN RECOVERY
Bighorn Sheep Recovery, Collapse and Rescue on the Navajo Nation
Nike J. Goodson, David R. Stevens, Jeffrey Cole, and Jessica L. Fort
Holding On: Forty Years of Bighorn Sheep Habitat Mitigation Along Koocanusa Reservoir in Northwest Montana
Ethan S. Lula, Chris Hammond, Lauren Michelson, and Ty Smucker
Toward Resolving the Domestic/Wild Sheep Grazing Issue on Public Lands: A Suggested Paradigm Shift in Government Policy
Richard B. Harris
Tribal Bighorn Management on the Flathead Indian Reservation
Shannon Clairmont
METHODS, TRANSLOCATIONS AND REINTRODUCTIONS, AND HABITAT USE
Evaluating Citizen Science Mountain Goat Counts Using GPS-Collared Goats in Southwest Montana
Julie Cunningham and Kelly Proffitt
Examining the Influence of Ecotypic Variation and Environmental Factors that Contribute to the Success of Translocated Bighorn Sheep
Sean McCain, Kelley M. Stewart, Vernon C. Bleich, Brett P. Wiedmann, and Rusty Robinson
Seasonal Habitat Use of a Re-Introduced Rocky Mountain Goat Population in Oregon
Jessica S. Clark, Corey Heath, Seth Harju, Andrew Walch, and Don Whittaker
Navigating Uncertainty: The Adaptive Value of Low Fidelity in Desert Bighorn Sheep
Ian Montgomery and Kezia Manlove
Surviving with Low Genomic Diversity: The Impacts of Reintroduction Management on Inbreeding and Genetic Load in Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis)
Michael R. Buchalski, Samantha L. Capel, and Catherine B. Quinn
Non-Consumptive Effects of Hunting on Stone’s Sheep Behaviour in the Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Park, BC
Julien W. F. Gullo, Bill Jex, and Mark S. Boyce
Habituated, Tolerant, or and Salt-Conditioned Mountain Goats and Human Safety
Richard B. Harris, Kurt Aluzas, Laura Balyx, Jami Belt, Joel Berger, Mark Biel, Tonya Chilton-Radandt, Steeve D. Côté, Julie Cunningham, Adam Ford, Patti Harpe, Chad P. Lehman, Kim Poole, Clifford G. Rice, Kirk Safford, Wesley Sarmento, and Lara Wolf
Managing for Population Recovery of Mountain Goats on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Jason Herreman and John P. Skinner
A Comparison of Habitat and Movement Metrics Between a Hunted and Unhunted Dall’s Sheep Population
Boomer Hesley, Brad Wendling, and Greg Breed
An Investigation of Exposure of Bighorn Sheep to the Parasite Toxoplasma gondii in Idaho
Laurel K. Hossler, E. Frances Cassirer, Hollie Miyasaki, Stacey Dauwalter, and Kathyn P. Huyvaert
Toxoplasma gondii and Chlamydia abortus Serosurveillance of Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep in Wyoming, USA
Jessica Jennings-Gaines, Brianna Blunk, Kara Robbins, Hunter Swilling, Kennedy Heninger, Elizabeth Case, and Samantha Allen
Age Dynamics and Chronic Carriage of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae Infection in Adult Domestic Sheep
Klara J. McKay, Denise Konetchy, Lauren Christensen, E. France Cassirer, and Kathryn P. Huyvaert
Population Dynamics of Mountain Goats in Southwestern British Columbia, Canada
Clifford Nietvelt, Steve Rochetta, Darryl Reynolds, and John Kelly
Shifts in Birth Dates and Lambing Period in Dall’s Sheep: Interannual Variation or Response to Climate Change?
Sonny Parker, Carmen Wong, and Jonathan Cromwell
The Role of Hunter Education, Experience, and Regulation on Mountain Goat Harvest Patterns in Alaska: Implications for Conservation and Hunter Ethics
Timothy J. Spivey, Jeff Jemison, and Kevin White
Space Use, Movement, and Survival of Translocated Desert Bighorn Sheep in Sonora, Mexico
Dylan G. Stewart, E. Alejandron Lozano-Cavazos, and Stephen Webb
Low Lamb Recruitment and Declines in Adult Dall’s Sheep: Cold Temperatures and Influence of the Snowshoe Hare Cycle
Carmen M. Wong, Ellen Whitman, and Shawn Taylor
Unraveling The Complex Biogeographic and Anthropogenic History of Alaska’s Mountain Goats
Kiana B. Young, Kevin S. White, and Aaron B.A. Shafer