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2026 NWSGC Biennial Symposium
Spring 2026

Northern Wild Sheep Council 2 – 1972

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Proceedings of the 2nd Northern Wild Sheep Council
Hinton, Alberta


Table of Contents

Technical Session on Management

Management and Research on Bighorn Sheep Sun River Area, Montana
A. Schallenberger

Difference Between Years and Nutrient Cycles
Daryll Hebert

Post Die-Off Recovery of East Kootenay Bighorn Sheep
R. A. Demarchi

Abstracts of Non-Trophy or Ewe Seasons in Alberta
William Wishart

Technical Session on Diseases and Parasites

Stress-Induced Immunologic Impairment in Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep
R. J. Hudson

Preparation and Testing of Pasteurella Bacterins on Captive Bighorn Sheep
Peter Nash, George Post and Alan Woolf

Bighorn Lamb Mortality Investigations in Colorado
T. Woodward, C. Hibler and Bill Rutherford

Technical Session on Behaviour

Behavioral Differences in Bighorn Lambs (Ovis canadensis canadensis Shaw) During Years of High and Low Survival
Brian Horejsi

A Comparison of Certain Aspects of the Behaviour and Development of Lambs from Two Populations of Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis Canadensis Shaw)
David Shackleton

On the Significance of Thermoclines to the Biology of Wintering Mountain Sheep
V. Geist

Panel on Sheep Management Inside National Parks Versus Outside Parks

Dr. V. Geist, University of Calgary

Dave Neave, Alberta Fish and Wildlife Division

V. P. Rolfson, National Parks Branch

John Stelfox, Canadian Wildlife Service

Panel on Land Use Conflicts in Western Alberta Rockies

E.G. Scheffler, Alberta Fish and Wildlife Division

J. B. Kemper, Alberta Fish and Wildlife Division

Jim Simpson,Class A Guide & Outfitter

Harold M. Etter, Northern Forest Research Center, Canada Department of the Environment

Lorne Yule, Land Use Section, Department of Lands and Forests

G. Stephenson, Assistant General Manager, Canmore Mines, Alberta

Business Session

A Statement of Concern by the Northern Wild Sheep Council on the Effects of Coal Mining on Wild Sheep Populations in Western Canada and Northewestern United States