{"id":14278,"date":"2016-03-02T09:07:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T17:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/officials-to-review-wild-sheep-proposal\/"},"modified":"2016-03-02T09:07:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T17:07:28","slug":"officials-to-review-wild-sheep-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/officials-to-review-wild-sheep-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials to review wild sheep proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014<\/strong> State officials will consider a proposal that would require goat and sheep owners to get permits in an effort to prevent the spread of disease between wild and domesticated animals.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska Wild Sheep Foundation\u2019s proposal would require the permits within 15 miles of Dall sheep habitat. The livestock owners would also have to keep their domesticated animals fenced in and test them for diseases, KTUU-TV reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like cutting the brush around your cabin,\u201d said Kevin Kehoe, president of Alaska\u2019s chapter of the Wild Sheep Foundation. \u201cYou can wait \u2018till a fire burns you out or you can say \u2018hmm it could happen to me it\u2019s worth taking preventative actions and get your neighbors to do the same thing.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Suzy Crosby, owner of Cottonwood Creek Farm in Wasilla, said the 15-mile rule is unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order for there to be co-mingling between our animals or even proximity, that Dall sheep would have to defy all laws of nature and leave its herd which they don\u2019t do and come down out of the mountains, cross bridges, roads, highways, fences, subdivisions, predation,\u201d Crosby said. \u201cIt would probably be a three-week trip in order to get to our place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kehoe said the foundation is open to working with domestic animal owners to come up with other preventative measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe fully understand this is an emotional issue and could impact fellow Alaskans and so we\u2019re more than willing to sit down with domestic growers associations and other agencies to discuss potential solutions like testing and other measures people might be able to come up with that would protect wild sheep and at the same time lessen the impact on domestic growers,\u201d Kehoe said.<\/p>\n<p>The Alaska Board of Game will review the proposal March 17. Alaska Department of Fish and Game officials said the board and the department do not have the authority to implement or reject the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Dale, director for the Division of Conservation, said it will be up to the state veterinarian to decide on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 State officials will consider a proposal that would require goat and sheep owners to get permits in an effort to prevent the spread of disease between wild and domesticated animals. Alaska Wild Sheep Foundation\u2019s proposal would require the permits within 15 miles of Dall sheep habitat. The livestock owners would also have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-14278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14278"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}