1st CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
2026 NWSGC Biennial Symposium
Spring 2026

Northern Wild Sheep and Goat Council 2 – 1980

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Proceedings of the 2nd Biennal Symposium
Salmon, Idaho


Table of Contents

Habitat Selection, Food Habits and Competition
Dr. James M. Peek

Food Habits and Forage Preferences of Bighorn Sheep In Alpine and Subalpine Communities
Bruce K. Johnson and Dwight R. Smith

Visibility: An Important Habitat Factor For an Indigenous, Low-Elevation Bighorn Herd in Colorado
Kenneth L. Risenhoover and James A. Bailey

Variation in bighorn Sheep Food Habits as Measured by Fecal Analysis
Allen Y. Cooperrider, Scott A. McCollough and James A. Bailey

Impact of Cattle Grazing on Bighorn Sheep Habitat at Trickle Mountain, Colorado
Scott A. McCollough, Allen Y. Cooperrider and James A. Bailey

Response of Bighorns to a Rest-Rotation Grazing Plan in Central Idaho
Walter L. Bodie and William O. Hickey

Re-introductions: Bighorns
William D. Wishart

Population Characteristics of Transplanted California Bighorn Sheep in Western North Dakota
Steven D. Fairaizl

Present Status of Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep in Northeast Oregon
Victor L. Coggins

Re-introductions of Bighorn Sheep in Washington
Rolf L. Johnson

Population Characteristics, Movements, and Distribution Patterns of the Upper Rock Creek Bighorn Sheep.
Thomas W. Butts

A Study of a Recently Introduced Bighorn Sheep Herd
Wendy L. Haas and Eugene Decker

An Unsuccessful Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis canadensis) Transplant on the Middle Fork of the Powder River, Wyoming
Amber Jo Long

Bighorn Sheep in North-Central Colorado, Past, Present and Future
Nike J. Goodson

A System for Evaluating Potential Bighorn Sheep Transplant Sites in Northern New Mexico
Randall E. Grunigen

Diseases and Physical Abnormalities
Dr. E. Tom Thorne

A Minor Die-off of Bighorns from Pneumonia in Southern Alberta (1978)
W.D. Wishart, Jon Jorgenson and Monty Hilton

Treatment for Lungworms (Protostrongylus spp.) in Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep (Ovis C. canadensis)
With Albendazole. Bill Foreyt and Rolf Johnson

The Implications of Contagious Ecthyma in Bighorn Sheep
William R. Lance

Horn Deformities in Dall Rams
Manfred Hoefs

Management and Population Characteristics
Wayne E. Heimer

Can Population Quality be Related to Population Density Through Nutrition?
Wayne E. Heimer

Temporal Geographic Variation in the Lambing Season of Bighorn Sheep
Richard W. Thompson and Jack C. Turner

Mortality Patterns in a Bighorn Sheep Population
Shawn T. Stewart

Migration of the Beartooth-Rock Creek Bighorn Sheep Herd
Steve A. Martin and Shawn T. Stewart

A Summary of Dall Sheep Management in Alaska During 1979 — (or how to cope with a monumental disaster)
Wayne E. Heimer

Mountain Goats
Lonn Kuck

Diets of Tame Mountain Goats and Bighorn Sheep in Colorado
Thomas V. Dailey

Cannon-Netting Mountain Goats
Michael J. Thompson and John J. McCarthy

Trapping and Transplanting Mountain Goats in British Columbia and Alberta
Daryll M. Hebert, William K. Hall and B. McLellan

A Population Perspective of Successful Mountain Goat Transplants
Richard J. Guenzel

Population Dynamics, Habitat Utilization, Recreational Impacts and Trapping of Introduced Rocky Mountain Goats in the Eagles Nest Wilderness Area, Colorado
Richard W. Thompson

Winter Habitat Selection and Group Size of Mountain Goats, Sheep Mountain – Gladstone Ridge, Colorado
Layne G. Adams and James A. Bailey

Preliminary Data on Mountain Goat Population Growth
John A. Youds, Daryll M. Hebert, William K. Hall and Ray A. Demarchi

Impacts of Hunting and Response to Five Year Hunting Closure on Idaho’s Pahsimeroi River Mountain Goat Herd
Lonn Kuck

Aerial Census and Classification of Mountain Goats in Alaska
Lymnan Nichols

Trapping Methods, Sheep
Marvin Hockley

The Evolution of Capturing Bighorns in Alberta
William D. Wishart, Kirby Smith, Jon Jorgenson and G. Lynch

The Usefulness of Rocket Nets for Dall Sheep Capture Compared With Other Capture Methods
Wayne E. Heimer, Stephen D. DuBois and David G. Kellyhouse

An Improved Radio-Control Device for Remotely Triggering Capture Equipment
David Johnson

Bibliography – Mountain Goat

Bibliography of North America’s Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus)
Bryan R. Foster