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Proceedings of the 19th Biennal Symposium
Fort Collins, Colorado
Table of Contents
ECOLOGY & MANAGEMENT Andy Holland, Colorado Parks & Wildlife, moderator
Evaluating apparent competition in limiting the recovery of endangered bighorn sheep:
Heather E. Johnson, Mark Hebblewhite, Thomas R. Stephenson, David W. German, Becky M. Pierce, and Vernon C. Bleich
Comparative ecology of mountain goats in coastal Alaska
Kevin S. White
Identifying genomic signatures of natural selection in Dall’s sheep:
Gretchen H. Roffler, Gordon Luikart, Michael K. Schwartz, and Steve Amish
Phylogenetic analyses reveal evidence for multiple glacial refugium for thinhorn sheep
Zijian Sim and David W. Coltman
Modeling summer habitat selection of sympatric bighorn sheep and mountain goats in the Greater Yellowstone Area
Jesse Devoe, Robert A. Garrott, Jay J. Rotella, and Stuart Challender
Impact of winter backcountry recreation on a formerly migratory bighorn sheep population in Wyoming
Alyson B. Courtemanch, Matthew J. Kauffman, Steve Kilpatrick, and Sarah R. Dewey.
A case study assessing the use of fire as a conservation tool for bighorn sheep habitat in western Colorado
Benjamin R. Wilson, Madeline Grant-Hoffman, and Stephanie Duckett
Application of the bighorn sheep risk of contact tool and best available science to a domestic sheep allotment analysis process
Randal W. Ghormley and Dale Gomez
DISEASE MONITORING & MANAGEMENT, Lisa L. Wolfe, Colorado Parks & Wildlife, moderator
Summary Report: bighorn sheep respiratory pathogen sampling and health assessment workshop
Mark Drew, Hank Edwards, Karen A. Fox, Colin M. Gillin, Ben Gonzales, Anne Justice-Allen, Kristen Mansfield, Leslie McFarlane, Michael W. Miller, Margo J. Pybus, Helen Schwantje, Lisa L. Wolfe, Peregrine L. Wolff, and Mary Wood
Enhanced bacterial pathogen detection via improved sample collection and laboratory diagnostics
Hally Killion, Jessica Jennings-Gaines, Michael W. Miller, and Hank Edwards
A collaborative regional initiative to correlate respiratory pathogens with demographic attributes of bighorn populations
Robert A. Garrott, Hank Edwards, Jennifer Ramsey, Douglas McWhirter, Neil Anderson, and Carson Butler
Mountain goats at the livestock-wildlife interface: a susceptible species
Peregrine L. Wolff, Thomas E. Besser, Danielle D. Nelson, Julia F. Ridpath, Kathryn McMullen, Juan Muñoz-Gutiérrez , Mike Cox, Chris Morris, and
Caleb McAdoo
Bighorn sheep sinus tumors are associated with co-infections by pneumonia-causing
bacterial agents in upper respiratory tract
Karen A. Fox, Natalie M. Rouse, Kathryn P. Huyvaert, Karen Griffin, Hally Killion, Jessica Jennings-Gaines,
Hank Edwards, and Sandra L. Quackenbush
The effect of Zuprevo, a macrolide antibiotic, on bighorn sheep lamb survival following a bacterial pneumonia outbreakLaura A. McHale, Todd Nordeen, Julie J. Shaffer, and Brian C. Peterson
Experimental management of pneumonia in bighorn sheep
E. Frances Cassirer, Raina K. Plowright, Paul Wik, Pat Matthews, Kezia R. Manlove, Paul C. Cross, Thomas E. Besser, and Peter J. Hudson
MANAGEMENT TOOLS Allen Vitt, Colorado Parks & Wildlife, moderator Factors predicting success of mountain goat reintroductions
Richard B. Harris and Brian Steele
Using long-acting neuroleptics and other drugs to facilitate bighorn sheep capture and translocation
Lisa L. Wolfe and Michael W. Miller
Managing and harvesting mountain goats for traditional purposes by indigenous user groups
Teri Rofkar
POPULATION MONITORING & DYNAMICS I Stephanie Ferrero, Colorado Parks & Wildlife, moderator
Observational description of alpine ungulate use at mineral licks in southwest Alberta, Canada
M.E. Jokinen, M.S. Verhage, R. Anderson, and D. Manzer
Estimating bighorn sheep abundance using noninvasive sampling at a mineral lick within a national park wilderness area
Kathryn A. Schoenecker, Mary Kay Watry, Laura E. Ellison, Michael K. Schwartz, and Gordon L. Luikart
Sighting probability and survival in two Colorado bighorn sheep herds
Sherri L. Huwer, Julie R. Stiver, Brian P. Dreher, and Janet L. George
Additions to the Dall’s sheep working hypothesis
Wayne E. Heimer
POPULATION MONITORING & DYNAMICS II Mark Vieira, Colorado Parks & Wildlife, moderator
Montana’s new state-wide bighorn sheep research initiative
Robert A. Garrott, Carson J. Butler, Kelly Proffitt, Jennifer Ramsey, and Jay J. Rotella
Pregnancy rate in Dall’s sheep in the Chugach Mountains, Alaska
Tom Lohuis
Disease and Predation: Sorting out causes of a bighorn sheep decline
Joshua B. Smith, Jonathan A. Jenks, Troy W. Grovenburg, Robert W. Klaver
Capture and survival of neonatal bighorn sheep lambs in a Colorado herd using vaginal implant transmitters
Jamin L. Grigg, Jacqueline K. Kniss, Lisa L. Wolfe, Karen A. Fox, Michael W. Miller, and Brian P. Dreher
Rates and causes of mortality of Dall’s sheep in Alaska: a comparison among mountain ranges
Stephen M. Arthur and Tom Lohuis
Determining cause-specific mortality, disease prevalence and survival rates of bighorn sheep inhabiting the Elk Mountain region of South Dakota and Wyoming
Brynn L. Parr, Jonathan A. Jenks, John Kanta, Joe Sandrini, and Dan Thompson
POSTERS Wendy Figueroa, Colorado Parks & Wildlife, coordinator Long-distance movements of the Granby ram through Colorado and Wyoming
Sherri Huwer and Karin Eichoff
Identification of an abbreviated migration behavior in bighorn sheep after migration loss
Alyson B. Courtemanch, Matthew J. Kauffman, Steve Kilpatrick, and Sarah R. Dewey
Evaluating habitat use of an Alaskan Dall’s sheep population via camera traps
Jeremy Dertien, Calvin F. Bagley, John Haddix, Aleya Brinkman, Elizabeth Neipert, and Paul F. Doherty, Jr.
Multi-elements, radionuclides, and persistent organics in tissues of mountain goats in Northwest Territories
Nicholas C. Larter, Colin R. MacDonald, Derek Muir, Brett T. Elkin, and Xiaowa Wang
Quantifying partial migration in an alpine ungulate
Derek Spitz, Mark Hebblewhite, and Thomas R. Stephenson
Comparison of post-mortem diagnostic methods for cases of bighorn sheep lamb pneumonia
Karen A. Fox, Hank Edwards, Jamin Grigg, Mary Wood, Jessica Jennings-Gaines, Hally Killion, Ivy Levan, Karen Griffin, and Michael W. Miller
Identifying pathways to decline in the Junction-Churn Creek California bighorn sheep population, British Columbia
Steven F. Wilson
No evidence for reduced lungworm loads or improved lamb recruitment following experimental anthelmintic treatments in a free-ranging bighorn sheep herd
Julie R. Stiver, Ivy Levan, Brian P. Dreher
Determining the status and trend for desert bighorn sheep in the San Rafael Swell
Rusty W. Robinson, Tom S. Smith, and Justin Shannon
Managing the risk of disease transmission from domestic sheep to wild sheep through the British Columbia Sheep Separation Program
Jeremy B. Ayotte and Helen Schwantje