Excerpt from Andy Walgamott’s recent post, followed by a link to the entire article:
WDFW continues to maintain that laboratory testing shows the hoof ailment is very similar to a “contagious bacterial infection in sheep,” but freelance Seattle journalist Jon Gosch has received some media attention for his dogged investigation and questions about whether possibly herbicides used on industrial forests might play a role.
Blogged Scott Sandsberry at the Yakima Herald-Republic recently:
Civic leaders in southwest Washington communities, as well as several members of the WDFW’s citizen panel working on the issue, are demanding what Gosch and some of his supporters have been saying for months: that those crippled elk be separated and studied until wildlife biologists can actually figure out once and for all what’s behind the disease.
That seems like a no-brainer to me. (That — “a no-brainer” — is also precisely how a member of that working panel described it to Gosch.)
Seems like a good idea to me as well.
http://nwsportsmanmag.com/headlines/wdfw-requesting-publics-reports-limping-elk-sw-wa/
