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Proceedings of the 5th Biennal Symposium
Missoula, Montana
Table of Contents
Keynote Address – Values, threats and challenges to Northern wild sheep, goats and biologists
Arnold Olsen
Mountain Sheep Harvest Strategies
Bighorn sheep harvest strategies in Wyoming
John E. Emmerich
Harvest strategies in Alberta
William D. Wishart
Bighorn sheep seasons in Montana, 1872 – 1985
John McCarthy
Harvest strategy panel: maximizing ram harvests
Wayne E. Heimer and Sarah M. Watson
Mountain Goat Harvest Strategies
Harvesting mountain goats: strategies, assumptions, and needs for management and research
James A. Bailey
Mountain goat management in British Columbia
Daryll M. Hebert and Tom Smith
Mountain goat management in Washington
Rolf Johnson
Mountain goat hunting strategies in Idaho
Lonn Kuck
Harvest Impacts
Reproductive response of the Absaroka mountain goat population to an experimental reduction
Jon E. Swenson
Time and area specific variations in Dall sheep lamb production: an explanatory hypotheses
Wayne E. Heimer and Sarah M. Watson
Bighorn ram survival and harvest in southwestern Alberta
Marco Festa-Bianchet
The effects of trophy hunting on Dall sheep rut behavior and ram survivorship in Alaska (abstract only)
Francis J. Singer, Karen K. Laing, Edward C. Murphy, and.Lyman K. Nichols
Management of bighorn sheep to optimize hunter opportunity
Lynn R. Irby, Shawn T. Stewart, and Jon E. Swenson
General Session
Dall sheep hunting in Alaska: what is it worth?
Sarah M. Watson
The myth of Alaska’s sheep hunters: rich, experienced, successful, and dedicated
Sarah M. Watson
Subsistence sheep hunting in Alaska
Wayne E. Heimer
The use of transplanting to expand bighorn sheep range
David R. Stevens and Donay D. Hanson
Circadian activity rhythms of chamois in northern Tyrol, Austria
Joseph Hamr and Hans Czaker
Trace element levels in Montana bighorn sheep horns
Harold D. Picton and Charles Eustace
Parasites and Disease
Experimental Pasturella pneumonia in bighorn sheep (abstract only)
Detlef K. Onderka
Use of Ivermectin to increase lamb survival in a herd of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep
Larry J. Layne and Thomas R. McCabe
Long-term effect of Fenbendazole on lungworm infections in transplanted bighorn sheep
Gary Huschle and David E. Worley
A comparative study of bighorn sheep herds in southeastern British Columbia
Helen Schwantje
Development Impacts
Mountain goat population changes in relation to energy exploration along Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front
Gayle Joslin
Population characteristics and habitat use by mountain sheep prior to a pneumonia dieoff
Timothy A. Andryk and Lynn R. Irby
Impacts of seismic activity on bighorn movements and habitat use
Dan Hook
Prescribed burning as mitigation for energy development on bighorn sheep ranges in Wyoming
Kevin P. Hurley and Larry L. Irwin
Bighorn sheep, Mount Allan, and the 1988 winter Olympics: political and biological realities
Brian L. Horejsi
The increase and dieoff of Waterton Canyon bighorn sheep: biology, management and dismanagement
James A. Bailey
Population Dynamics
Longevity of American mountain goats
Bruce L. Smith
Reproductive success of Sheep River ewes: a preliminary report (abstract only)
Marco Festa-Bianchet
Preliminary observations on population responses to an expanding bighorn sheep herd in Alberta
Jon T. Jorgenson and William D. Wishart
Habitat and Nutrition
Bi-level analysis of habitat selection by mountain goats in coastal Alaska
Christian A. Smith
Food habits and habitat use of Putoran snow sheep, (Ovis nivicola borealis)
A. D. Fedosenko
Animal condition – a comparison of fecal nitrogen and diaminopimelic acid
Daryll M. Hebert
Winter food habits and sexual monomorphism in Japanese serow
Kazuo Suzuki and Seiki Takatsuki
Habitat improvement for Taylor River bighorn sheep herd
William C. Shuster
Summer habitat use by bighorn ewes and lambs
Gary C. Brundige and Thomas R. McCabe
Alpine habitat selection in sympatric mountain goats and mountain sheep
Dale F. Reed
A solar radiation model for ibex relocation programs
P. G. Meneguz, L. Rossi, D. DeMeneghi, P. Lanfranchi, V. Peracino and T. Balbo