1st CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
2026 NWSGC Biennial Symposium
Spring 2026

Northern Wild Sheep and Goat Council 13 – 2002

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Proceedings of the 13th Biennal Symposium
Rapid City, South Dakota


Table of Contents

Disease and Parasites

Parasites in Dall’s sheep: what we can learn from historical and contemporary collections (or: putting together the pieces!).
Kutz, S. J., A. M. Veitch, N. Simmons, E. Hoberg, B. Elkin, E. J. Jenkins, and L. Polley

Distribution and abundance of terrestrial gastropod intermediate hosts of lungworms on isolated, semi-arid bighorn ranges. Rodgerson, J. D., and W. S. Fairbanks

Investigating and interpreting population health in Dall’s sheep in the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada.
Jenkins, E. J., A. M. Veitch, B. T. Elkin, S. J. Kutz, M. Chirino-Trejo, and L. Polley

Contact zone between expanding muskox populations and Dall’s sheep – an emerging disease issue.
Kutz, S. J., A. M. Veitch, J. Nagy, B. Elkin, E. Hoberg, E. J. Jenkins, and L. Polley

Viability of air-bourne Pasteurella spp.
Dixon, D., K. Rudolph, L. Cowen, D. L. Hunter, and A.C.S. Ward

Molecular identification of Pasteurella-related outbreaks in bighorn sheep using pulse field gel electrophoresis.
Hosch-Hebdon, T.

Genetic resistance to disease in wild sheep.
Rudolph, K., T. Hosch-Hebdon, and D. E. Toweill

Genetics

Mountain goat horns of the Kootenay Region of British Columbia.
Gilchrist, D

Genetic paternity and horn size in bighorn sheep: evolutionary and management implications.
Coltman, D., M. Festa-Bianchet, J. Jorgenson, and C. Strobeck

Quantification of a known population bottleneck in Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in Custer State Park, South Dakota.
Goldstein, E. J., G. Luikart, and G. C. Brundige

Population Monitoring

A review and comparison of management concerns, objectives and strategies for two native bighorn sheep populations.
Alt, K., and Q. Kujala

Bighorn sheep survival in Badlands National Park 1997-2000: can routine sampling help predict survival?
Bourassa, M. A., and S. V. Huzurbazar

Relationship between population density and mortality of bighorn sheep in Hells Canyon.
Lammers, W. M., and E. F. Cassirer

Age- and sex-specific local survival in unhunted mountain goats.
Festa-Bianchet, M., and S. D. Côté

Validation of a helicopter census technique for bighorn sheep.
Taylor, E., D. E. Toweill, E. O. Garton, and W. Van Dyke

Status Reports

The status of the mountain goats in the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada.
Veitch, A., E. Simmons, M. Promislow, D. Tate, and R. Popko

Status of Oregon Rocky Mountain goats.
Coggins, V. L., and P. E. Matthews

Nutrition

Bighorn sheep lamb survival, trace minerals, rainfall and air pollution: Are there any connections?
Hnilicka, P., J. Mionczynski, B. Mincher, J. States, M. Hinschberger, S. Oberlie, C. Thompson, and B. Yates

An investigation into the selenium requirements of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep.
Dean, R., P. Hnilicka, and T. Kreeger

Transplant Assessment

Ecological assessment of recently reintroduced Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep along the Wasatch front.
Whiting, J.

Predation and bighorn sheep transplants in New Mexico: a tale of two herds.
Rominger, E. M., H. A. Whitlaw, D. Weybright, and W. C. Dunn

The landscape of fear and it’s implications to sheep reintroductions.
Laundré, J., L. Hernandez, I. Arias and G. Fowles

Habitat Use

A GIS-based habitat model for bighorn sheep winter range in Glacier National Park, Montana.
Dicus, G.

The suitability of GPS wildlife collars for studying coastal habitat use by mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus).
Taylor, S.

Evaluation of habitat selection by a reintroduced population of California bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis californiana) in south-central Idaho.>/a>
Fowles, G., J. Laundré, T. Ferguson, and N. Huntly

Bite rates in bighorn sheep:effects of season, age, sex and reproductive status.
Ruckstuhl, K. E., J. T. Jorgenson, and M. Festa-Bianchet

Capture and Disease Testing Protocols

Discussion of proposed disease testing protocol for transplants.
Foster, C., and K. Hurley

Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) diseases: a brief iterature review and risk assessment for translocation.
Dubay, S. , H. Schwantije, J. De Vos, and T. McKinney

Managing Domestic Sheep/Wild Sheep Interactions

Bighorn pneumonia die-offs: an observer’s short history and synthesis.
Heimer, W.

Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep/domestic sheep and goat interactions, a management perspective.
Coggins, V.

Managing domestic sheep allotments in bighorn sheep habitat: seeking solutions.
Hurley, K.

POSTER SESSION

Infrared survey of California bighorn sheep in Idaho.
Bernatas, S., and L. Nelson

Spatial and temporal synchrony in horn growth of Dall’s sheep rams in the Yukon.
Carey, J., and D. Hik

Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep management in Badlands National Park.
Childers, E.

Population status of Transcaspian Urial (Ovis orientalis [vignei] arkal) at Aktau-Buzachinskiy Nature Reserve, Kazakhstan.
Frisina, M. R.

Determining pregnancy status of Rocky Mountain bighorn ewes from fecal P4, a progesterone derivative hormone.
Goldstein, E. J., J. Bauman, and G. C. Brundige

The behavioural effects of helicopter logging on mountain goats.
Gordon, S.

Life cycle, distribution, and significance of Parelaphostrongylus odocoileiin thinhorn sheep (Ovis dalli).
Jenkins, E. J., A. M. Veitch, E. P. Hoberg, S. J. Kutz, B. T. Elkin, and L. Polley

Use of low elevation habitats by bighorn sheep in Nebraska.
Klinksiek, E., and S. Fairbanks

Lamb production and survival of a bighorn sheep population in central Idaho.
McDaniel, C.

Using GPS telemetry to study the seasonal habitats of mountain goats within the Sunshine Coast Forest District, British Columbia.
Taylor, S., and W. Wall

Heirarchial habitat selection by Dall’s sheep within the Tanana-Yukon uplands, Alaska.
Wendling, B., B. Griffith, and J. Lawler

Population structure and genetic variation of horn size in Dall’s sheep from the Northwest Territories.
Worley, K., A. Veitch, and D. Coltman

Dall sheep disagreements: an Alaska management controversy.
Heimer, W. E., S. Watson-Keller, V. Geist, S. Castle Kirstein, and T. C. Smith