Scientists are mapping more herd migration routes than ever before in the western U.S. While the efforts are aimed at conservation of primary migratory routes, animal health pros will readily see the benefits for managing and predicting CWD and other potential disease risks.
Source: Smithsonian, January 8, 2019. Link.
There are some similar things for bird migration,” Matthew Kauffman says, “but for big game migration—for ungulates specifically—this is the first one of its kind. We’ve taken fairly cutting-edge scientific studies and tried to distill them down for the atlas.”