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Program and
speakers: (Click to view PowerPoint presentations)
Introduction to the issues, workshop process and agenda - Dave Jessup
The “Payette Principles” - Mike
Miller
Field investigations, gross findings and population level effects - Mike Miller
Review of April 2007 Wild Sheep Respiratory Disease Workshop- Elena Garde
Working together to
resolve conflicts -
Melanie Woolever
The physical problems, costs and concerns
of woolgrowers- Nancy East
Qualitative risk assessment - Tim Schommer
Quantitative risk assessment - Jonna Mazet and Tom Stephenson
WAFWA: Bighorn management
guidelines -
Kevin Hurley
Wrap up, Payette Principles consensus- Dave
Jessup
Date: September
27, 2007 immediately following The Wildlife Society annual meeting.
Location: Hotel Arizona, in Tucson
(one of the designated TWS host hotels), meeting rooms to be determined. Conference/government per diem rates of
$83/night to be honored by the hotel for all attendees to this workshop. Attendees are responsible for making or
extending their own hotel reservations and paying for them. Attendees are also
responsible for their own travel arrangements.
Sponsored by: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation,
University of California-Davis Wildlife Health Center, Foundation for North
American Wild Sheep, and California Department of Fish and Game. No cost to attendees.
Audience: Up to 90 biologists, wildlife and range managers, public land users as well as
academics and students are welcome.
All attendees must register by contacting Alexis Nakamura at
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or 530-752-4167.
Topics to be covered:
Information on disease believed to
be shared by bighorn and domestic sheep, summary of and links to most recent
veterinary workshop on bighorn respiratory diseases, qualitative and
quantitative disease risk assessment, problems posed to grazers in
accommodating separation from bighorn, frameworks for seeking solutions, best
management practices. Sources of
foundational and historic information and links to other recent workshops will
be provided. These topics will be
covered in powerpoint discussion and lecture format by 9 biologists,
veterinarians, conservationists and grazers.
History: A number of catastrophic die offs of
bighorn sheep over the last several decades have been associated with contact
with domestic sheep and goats. Most frequently the disease process has been
pneumonia and in some cases whole herds have been lost. Efforts to enforce separation of bighorn from
domestic sheep and goats as a means of disease control on public land have
financial and operational implications for grazers and the need for this
separation has been questioned. Federal
forest and range management actions have been effected and in several cases
litigation has occurred. Meetings
sponsored by governmental and non-governmental sources have allowed the
accumulation of a great deal of pertinent information but it has not been
widely disseminated. Risk assessment,
particularly quantitative risk assessment, has great promise as a tool for
objectifying risk and potentially for guiding management actions.
Goal: To provide biologist, wildlife and
wildland managers with the most current available information on the subject,
in particular methods for doing quantitative disease risk assessment,
background and foundational information, as well as varied perspectives on the
subject.
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