State to collect elk samples to study hoof disease

February 16, 2013 @ 1:22 pm

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - State wildlife biologists plan to kill and collect samples from elk calves to find out what's causing hoof disease in elk in southwest Washington.

The Department of Fish and Wildlife says it plans to take up to five young elk from industrial forestland in Pacific County starting this month. Biologists will use those samples to compare them with elk from the Cowlitz River basin where the disease has spread quickly among elk since 2008.

Biologists will also kill and take samples from young elk in the Cowlitz area and western Yakima County.

The agency says hoof disease results in broken, deformed hooves and lameness that can hinder an elk's ability to survive.


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  • CH wrote...
    State to collect elk samples
    February 16, 2013 7:29 pm
    you can D-mail your sample in zero-zero.
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  • hpitantso wrote...
    Ray Lewis
    February 17, 2013 9:36 pm
    Football dance was crazy maybe he was into elk hoofs as well.
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