Table of Contents

Introduction, Sponsors, Guidelines and Forward  

Northern Wild Sheep and Goat Council:Statement Impacts of Climate Change on Mountain Goats and Their Habitats: Considerations for Conservation, Management and Mitigation.

MOVEMENT/SOCIAL DYNAMICS/CONNECTIVITY/GENETICS

An Empirically Grounded Framework for Tuning a General Bighorn Sheep Space Use Model to Specific Environmental Contexts
Kezia Manlove, Lauren Ricci, and Mike Cox

Estimating the Fission-Fusion Dynamics in Social Behavior of Bighorn Sheep
Toni M. Proescholdt and Kezia Manlove

Seasonal Variation in Connectivity Behavior of Bighorn Sheep
Lauren Ricci, Mike Cox, and Kezia Manlove

Why Do Some Female Bighorn Sheep Go On Breeding Migrations, While Others Stay in Their Local Wintering Range? Inbreeding Avoidance, Tradition, and Social Transmission
Kathreen E. Ruckstuhl, John T. Hogg, Megan A. Mah

Seeing is be-Leaving: Perception Informs Migratory Decisions in Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis sierrae)
Danielle J. Berger, David W. German, Christian John, Ronan Hart, Thomas R. Stephenson, and Tal Avgar

Landscape Features Outperform Habitat to Explain Genetic Connectivity of Bighorn Sheep in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park
Elizabeth P. Flesch, Tabitha A. Graves, and Mark J. Biel

Range-Wide Genetic Analyses to Guide the Future Management of California Bighorn Sheep
Joshua P. Jahner, Thomas L. Parchman, Marjorie D. Matocq, C. Alex Buerkle, and Clinton W. Epps

With Great with Powder Comes Great Responsibility: Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Response to Backcountry Skiing
Jaron T. Kolek, Thomas R. Stephenson, and Kevin L. Monteith

RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES

Evaluating Non-Traditional Approaches to Monitor a Small and Remote Bighorn Sheep Population
Carson Butler, Sarah Dewey, Clinton Epps, Rachel Crowhurs, Alyson Courtemanch, Mary Conner, Michael Whitfield

Teton Range Bighorn Sheep and Winter Recreation Collaborative Process: Successes and Struggles
Alyson Courtemanch, Sarah Dewey, Carson Butler, Jason Wilmot, Nathan Yorgason, Steve Kilpatrick, Michael Whitfield

Landscape Factores Inhibiting Mountain Goat Movenments: A Contribution to Delineating Demographic Units
Richard B. Harris, Forest Hayes, Clifford G. Rice, and David J. Vales

Early Summer Precipitation and Temperature Associated with Mountain Goat Declines in Glacier National Park
Tabitha A. Graves, Jami Belt, William M. Janousek, and Michael J. Yarnall

MOUNTAIN GOAT MANAGEMENT ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

Demographic Uncertainty and Disease Risk Drive Climate-Informed Mountain Goat Management
Justin A. Gude, Nicholas J. DeCesare, Kelly M. Proffitt, Sarah N. Sells, Robert A. Garrott, Imtiaz Rangwala, Mark Biel, Jessica Coltrane, Julie Cunningham, Tammy Fletcher, Karen Loveless, Rebecca Mowry, Megan O’Reilly, Ryan Rauscher, Michael Thompson

DISEASE/PARASITE DIAGNOSTICS/SURVEILLANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Diagnostic Strengths of Strain Typing Bacteria During Surveillance and Bighorn Sheep Die- offs Christopher A.W. MacGlover, William H. Edwards, and Kerry S. Sondgeroth

Multilocus Sequence Typing, Leukotoxin Identification, and 16S rDNA Biodiversity Determination of Mannheimia haemolytica, Bibersteinia trehalosi, Pasteurella multocida, and Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae A Single Assay Using Multiplex PCR, Short-Read Sequencing, and Automated Bioinformatics
Karen A. Fox, Cristopher A.W. MacGlover, Kevin A. Blecha, and Mark D. Stenglein

Bighorn Sheep Respiratory Disease Surveillance via Animal Behavior and Community Science
Sidney Brenkus, James S. Adelman, and Robert W. Klaver

Fascioloides Magna in Free-Ranging Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis)
Amelie Mathieu,Caeley Thacker, Irene Teske, Emily Jenkins, Brent Wagner, Bryan MacBeth, Stephen Raverty, and Margo Pybus

Evaluating Ability of Cameras to Accurately Estimate Vital Rates for Desert Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni)
Grete Wilson-Henjum, Kezia Manlove, and Kathy Longshore

Testing the Tools: Montana’s Highlands Bighorn Sheep Project
Vanna Boccadori and Kelly Proffitt

Montana’s Sun River Bighorn Sheep, Decimation to Restoration and Back Again…Ugh!
Brent N. Lonner

Whiskey Mountain Bighorn Sheep – Pullin’ on a Management Lever
Daryl Lutz, Pat Hnilicka, Brittany Wagler, Rachel Smiley, Kevin Monteith, Jennifer Malmberg, Hank Edwards, and Art Lawson

HABITAT USE, NUTRITION, DEMOGRAPHY

Behavioral Responses of Bighorn Sheep Following a Large-Scale Wildfire
Katey S. Huggler, E. Frances Cassirer, Paul Wik, and Ryan A. Long

Heterogeneity in Risk-Sensitive Allocation of Somatic Reserves in Bighorn Sheep
Rachel A. Smiley, Brittany L. Wagler, Tayler N. LaSharr, Kristin A. Denryter, Thomas R. Stephenson, Alyson B. Courtemanch, Tony W. Mong, Daryl Lutz, Doug McWhirter, Doug Brimeyer, Patrick Hnilicka, Blake Lowrey, and Kevin L. Monteith

The Little Belt Mountains Wild Sheep Restoration Effort
Jay Kolbe and Sonja Andersen

Wildfire Recovery To Provide Optimal Habitat For Bighorn Sheep In The Douglas Creek Bighorn Sheep Herd
Ryan Amundson

Effects of Helicopter Net-Gunning on Survival of Bighorn Sheep
Brittany L. Wagler, Rachel A. Smiley, Alyson B. Courtemanch, Gregory Anderson, Daryl Lutz, Doug McWhirter, Doug Brimeyer, Patrick Hnilicka, Cody P. Massing, David W. German, Thomas R. Stephenson, Kevin L. Monteith

Hornography: Using Photogrammetry and 2D Measurement as Non-invasive Methods to Assess Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Horn Morphology
Tanisha C. Henry and Kathreen E. Ruckstuhl

Cost Distance Models to Predict Contact Between Bighorn Sheep and Domestic Sheep
Kathleen Anderson, Maya L. Cahn, Thomas R. Stephenson, Alexandra P. Few, Brian E. Hatfield, David W. German, Jonathan M. Weissman, and Brian Croft

Assessing the Performance of the Risk of Contact Tool’s Core Herd Home Range Estimator
Joshua M. O’Brien