The source for news stories about Yellowstone National Park. A proposal to vaccinate some 2000 elk on the Jackson Hole National Elk Refuge is being considered.
Elk are natural carriers of the disease brucellosis.
Vaccinating the elk would be one means of controlling possible spread of brucellosis to domestic livestock. Thus far, unlike with the Yellowstone bison herd, there have been no efforts to keep the disease-prone elk away from cattle in either Montana or Wyoming. This lack of action is most likely attributed to elk being essential to the huge hunting industry in both states, according to some observers. The Starting Point Hot Site award is designated according to a site's popularity among internet surfers. Yellowstone Net is being recognized as a Starting Point Hot Site today, November 26.