Officials Want To Kill Elk In Yellowstone To Stop Brucellosis
July 7, 2008
According to a Fox News report, officials are considering capturing and/or killing thousands of elk in and around the Yellowstone National Park area as a means of halting the spread of brucellosis, a disease that can cause cattle, bison, elk and other infected animals to abort their young.
It was thought that bison were the main culprit in spreading the disease and as many as 6,000 have been killed leaving the park over the past decade but the disease persists and now officials believe it is elk spreading the disease and they want to cull the herd. This isn’t sitting well with hunters, sporting groups and others interested in protecting the elk herds.
Tom Remington
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I think this is nonsense and I will never believe it until an unbiased Independent Veterinary group non-government funded tests those herds and tells us their findings. This group should come from the population and should then have their findings checked by a follow-up Independent group, even a group from Canada. Other-wise we have the word of an agency in my opinion whom the people no longer trust in. Or we sue them, and require that all groups attend the slaughter and each group emmediatley recovers samples and then testing can be done. I can be there myself with Vets I know and trust. This stinks to high hell folks. Next they will close hunts, this is what they want folks. It is simply Iron Mountain Bullshit from the get go.
” By controlling energy, we control nations, by controlling food, we can control individuals.” Sovereign Military Order Knight of Malta Henry Kissinger.
You folks better wise up, and pronto.
I am looking in Will N. Graves book at the moment chapter is called Parasites and Diseases of Wolves, page 77, well on page 83 Will states;
” There are numerous articles(Russian) in the literature about wolves spreading infectious diseases such as brucellosis, tularemia,listeriosis, and anthrax.” This chapter states Russian scientists studies show that wolves carry over 50 types of parasites and it states that wolves spread the parasites to game and cattle.
This is the book Wolves in Russia; Anxiety Through the Ages.
Wyoming better start testing their wolves for brucellosis NOW, if your Elk have the disease they got it from your Wolves. Every wolf killed in the predator zone should get an Independent test ran by a private Vet, NOW, and any wolves killed in hunts this fall, you hunters MUST get this test done by Independent vets you trust and document it.
The wolf program is killing our herds in more ways than we imagined. Get the proof and put it their faces any way you can. Wills book ISBN; 978-1-55059-332-7 You can get this book via wolf crossing as well. Wake up friends, its time to fight them with all the Intellect we can muster.
Just a quick question, and perhaps I am a bit ignorant on this issue, but why would you suggest that the Elk are not to blame, but you are equally adamant about suggesting that it is the wolf? What makes one better than the other? Perhaps it is the hunting angle that you share, but it is known that the wolves were only recently reintroduced into Yellowstone (last 10-12 years) while Brucellosis has been around far longer. How could you explain that?
I am not a “Protect the Wolf” guy, but I think that if they are seriously going to make an effort to figure this out, then they should be looking at all species. Singling one out, but not the rest, is not the answer–
On the same token, why would some hunters and sporting groups take offense to the Elk, but not to the Wolf, and are equally encouraging of suggesting this scenario?
Like I said, I may be ignorant to this, I just had a couple of questions and thought this could get me a few answers I have been looking for-
A penny For your thoughts, I already put in my two cents.
Good points, My thoughts are this, if they are going to kill off those elk and apparently have removed 6,000 Bison in this last decade as suggested well I think we should look to the wolves as well, since Canadian and Russian scientists are calling the wolf a carrier of this brucellosis. If they have it then they can spread it to and must be removed. I am looking at my collection of data on this and have contacted one DMV and will be contacting others that I know, along with an e-mail to our Canadian Biologist whom wrote the reports I have in my possession. Graves and Giest must have answers and I want them. The science shows an increase in the brucellosis in areas of hooved animals and wolves versus areas of hooved animals and no wolves, I want the link, how do they pass it to the hooved animals, or as you mention do the elk give it to the wolf which causes the spread to speed up. A soviet scientist researched the distributions and numbers of wolves in the extreme North East of Siberia and compared this with the areas of high brucellosis infections in reindeer. He showed the results of his research on a map. In most areas with a high wolf population there was a high incidence of brucellosis. Now I have been told the cannine brucellosis is different than the ungulate brucellosis, this makes no sense to me when I read those reports from Russia, granted I am only seeing excerpts from them. And last I have lived in this area 49 years and seen this prior to wolves ( brucellosis and CWD) yet not of this magnitude. Hell maybe the deer flies are spreading the disease, all I know is apparently wolves are carriers of brucellosis and 49 other scientifically documented parasites and diseases. Historically as shown by scientists in other countries wolves limit the number of hooved animals. 1933; Semyonov-Tyanshanski, 1948, 1969, Druri, Terletskij, 1962 Markidin, 1968, Komarov, Lavrov, 1969, Kheruvimov, 1969 and others..
Yes I have hunted, I also raised a wolf and hung with him fourteen years until his death. I seek truth, nothing more. Yes, I do not give the u.s. agnecies one iota of credibility, I know them to well. Also we American’s only have 12-14 years of wolf experience u.s. agencies included, versus Russia with over two hundred years of documentation, and Canada with at least one hundred years themselves, I gotta go with them.
Greg, Tessora and Forbes published a report “Experimental Brucella Aborta in Wolves” in the Journal of Wildlife Disease, 2004. {Google Brucellosos wolf} to find it on the internet. The finally concluding remark “Although wolves can harbor B. abortus in circumstances where prey species are infected, this experiment would suggest that wolves do not play a significant role in maintenance and dissemination of B. abortus and should not pose an obstacle to eradication of the disease.”
Robert Hoskins has suggested that the recent source in Montana may have been brought in by rodeo livestock.