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It is the goal of the Greater Yellowstone Interagency
Brucellosis Committee (GYIBC) to protect and sustain the existing free-ranging
elk and bison populations in the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) and protect the
public interests and economic viability of the livestock industry in Wyoming,
Montana and Idaho.
Toward this end it is the mission of the GYIBC to facilitate the
development and implementation of brucellosis management plans for elk and bison
in the GYA.
This will be accomplished by subscribing to the following
management objectives which will, in turn, guide the GYIBC:
- Recognize and maintain existing state and federal jurisdictional
authority for elk, bison and livestock in the GYA;
- Maintain numerically, biologically and genetically viable elk and/or
bison populations in the respective states, national parks, forests and
wildlife refuges;
- Maintain the brucellosis-free status of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho and
protect the ability of producers in the respective states to freely market
livestock;
- Eliminate brucellosis-related risks to public health;
- Eliminate the potential transmission of Brucella abortus among
elk, bison and livestock;
- Coordinate brucellosis-related management activities among all
affected agencies;
- Base brucellosis-related management recommendations on defensible and
factual information while encouraging and integrating new advances and
technology;
- Aggressively seek public involvement in the decision making process;
- Communicate to the public factual information about the need to
prevent the transmission of brucellosis, the need for its eradication and the
rationale for related agency management actions; and
- Plan for elimination of Brucella abortus from the GYA
by the year 2010.
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