Feedgrounds Shared Learning
Over the course of 13 weeks in 2021, Stakeholders in the Elk Feedgrounds: A Challenge We Can Take On public process learned about the complexities of elk feedgrounds. All Shared Learning information is located below.
Feedgrounds Shared Learning
Follow along on Shared Learning topics below.
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Join Wyoming Game and Fish Director Brian Nesvik for an introduction to elk feedgrounds. Tara Kuipers describes the Shared Learning process for Stakeholders. Then follow along with State Wildlife Veterinarian Dr. Samantha Allen and Game and Fish Wildlife Health Supervisor Hank Edwards as we begin to explore diseases and elk feedground. Watch video here.
Watch and learn about necrobacillosis with Dr. Jennifer Malmberg at the University of Wyoming.
Stakeholders asked questions of Game and Fish employees. Watch the Disease Questions and Answers Session.
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Our Federal Partners during Phase I of Elk Feedgrounds: A Challenge We Can Take On presented this information during Phase I.
In addition, the National Elk Refuge provided an additional presentation, including more information on the Bison and Elk Management Step-down Plan.
Stakeholders asked questions of the Elk Feedground Steering Team. Watch the questions and answers here.
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In this presentation, Game and Fish focuses on damage and conflict in relation to feedgrounds and in other areas of the state.
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Game and Fish talks about Winter Range and Land Use in this presentation. You can also read this compilation of information on the Western State Management of Wintering Elk. (ADD PDF)
This Question and Answer Session covers questions on Winter Range and Land Use as well as Western State Management of Wintering Elk.
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Watch the combined presentation from Game and Fish and Question and Answers from Stakeholders.
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The Elk Feedground Stakeholders met in Pinedale and via Zoom to cover these topics and to break out into Stakeholder groups to begin discussions beyond the binary "either/or" choices related to feedgrounds. Game and Fish hopes to gain informed, thorough, and creative perspectives on addressing these five considerations in the future long-term elk feed ground management: 1) Damage and Conflict Mitigation, 2) Disease Management and Mitigation, 3) Hunter Opportunity, 4) Habitat Protection, and 5) Wildlife Management, overall.
Additional Resources:
- Modeling CWD in the Jackson elk herd Galloway et al 2017
- Maloney et al, 2020 - CWD, Brucellosis, GYE - Ecological Applications
- CWD model of genetic selection prolongs survival in elk Williams 2014
- Adaptive management of CWD in Jackson Elk Herd Galloway 2021