Governors Brucellosis Coordination Team Meeting in Lander Nov. 20

Brucellosis updates and surveillance and action plan results are among topics at the Governor’s Brucellosis Coordination Team meeting Friday, Nov. 20, from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at The Inn at Lander, 250 Grandview Drive in Lander.

Agenda items are:

-- Updates from the state veterinarians of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.

-- Wyoming Game and Fish Department on its surveillance plans and results for 2015-16, and updates on brucellosis management action plans for elk herd units in the region.

-- A Utah State University researcher will discuss wolf-elk interaction in the Northern Yellowstone region.

-- University of Wyoming researchers will provide the latest information on their work.

-- A brief report on the National Academy of Sciences’ study of brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

For more information, contact Bruce Hoar, brucellosis coordinator in the UW College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, at (307) 766-3372 or bhoar@uwyo.edu.