The Indiana Farm Bureau this week announced a new, streamlined process for farmers to get kill or “take” permits for black vultures that have been preying
OVANDO â Wildlife officials and the local Blackfoot Valley community are working together to wrap up details of the July 6 fatal grizzly bear attack of a camper in Ovando.
Soon the information will be sent on to the Board of Review, a group of wildlife staff from federal and state agencies assembled to look at the details of all human-bear attacks and record them in a final report. The board will release its final report containing all details of this Ovando case sometime later this year. It will be available for review on the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee website at igbconline.org/bear-safety/.
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Rabies vaccine in the form of a sweet-smelling oral bait that is attractive to raccoons and skunks will be dropped in rural areas of Vermont from low-flying aircraft and placed by hand in residential centers beginning Aug. 5. Approximately 450,000 quarter-sized blister packs containing rabies vaccine will be distributed in nearly 100 Vermont communities across nine counties. A switch allows pilots to control where the baits fall in order to avoid roadways, homes, and other places where people are most likely to be.
The State of Vermont and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services mark a quarter-century of cooperative efforts to stop the spread of the rabies, with the 25
July 30, 2021
Annual effort aims to reduce spread of disease among mammals
AUGUSTA Oral rabies vaccine (ORV) baits will be distributed in northeastern Maine from about August 6, 2021, through August 11, 2021, as part of ongoing, cooperative rabies control efforts aimed at reducing the spread of raccoon rabies in Maine. Approximately 385,000 ORV baits targeting raccoons will be distributed by air and ground over a 2,650-square-mile area. Wildlife Services, a program within the U.S Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, will distribute the ORV baits in cooperation with the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC). ORV baits are coated with fishmeal and distributed in one-inch square cubes or two-inch plastic sachets. Though the baits do not transmit rabies at all, humans and pets should leave them undisturbed. The vaccine in the baits is shown to be safe in more than 60 species of animals, including domestic dogs and ca