ODFW Confirms Pneumonia Outbreak Spreads to New Baker County Bighorn Sheep Herd
by TBC Press on 12/03/20Oregon (ODFW) and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) have determined that the same strain of bacterial pneumonia that caused a die-off in the Lookout Mountain bighorn sheep herd earlier in the year has spread to the Burnt River herd. This year is the first-time bacterial pneumonia (caused by the organism Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae) has been identified in the Burnt River herd. While I-84 normally separates the herds, bighorn sheep have been known to try to... READ MORE
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