(STATEWIDE) — Thanks to hunters this fall, expanded efforts by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to learn more about Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, or “M.ovi,” received a welcome boost. Providing specimens from the field, hunters from around the state helped the department collect laboratory samples from more than 330 Dall sheep, 110 mountain goats, 100 caribou, […]
(Anchorage) – A strain of bacteria known to cause pneumonia in Lower 48 bighorn sheep has been detected for the first time in Alaska Dall’s sheep and mountain goats. Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae (Movi, for short), described as a respiratory bacteria that can cause disease in susceptible hosts, was recently confirmed in four Dall’s sheep within a sample […]
Cantwell-based troopers are asking the public for assistance and information. After discovering Dahl sheep carcasses in Healy on Friday. At 4:30 PM on Friday afternoon, Alaska Wildlife Troopers from the Cantwell post, received a report about sheep carcasses dumped into Dry Creek below. This cement bridge in Healy. When troopers arrived at the scene they […]