Summary of Accomplishments

• September 1994 - National Symposium on Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area

• September 1994 - GYIBC position statement on winter feeding of ungulates

• May 1995 - Recommended a Bison Quarantine Protocol for the Greater Yellowstone Area to USDA. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
  

• May 1995 - Adoption of Standardized Sample Collection Protocols for Bison

• June 1995 - Memorandum of Understanding signed by Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture and Governors of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming.
  

• August 1995 - Adoption of informational report Risk of Transmission of Brucellosis from Infected Bull Bison to Cattle
  

• December 1995 - Voted to testify before Senate committee on a bill offered by Senator Conrad Burns 

  • Address the Goals of the GYIBC

  • Encouraged cooperation among the three states and support interagency cooperation

  • Provide funding for the GYIBC

  • Noted the schedule of the National Brucellosis Eradication Program, with its 1998 deadline for eliminating the disease in livestock "is not appropriate for wildlife."
    

• February 1996 - GYIBC voted to entertain proposal from Inter Tribal Bison Cooperative for a quarantine facility and its operation
  

• March 1996 - Testimony provided on S-745 - Funding for a programmatic EIS and operational expenses
  

• May 1997 - Approved Information Action Plan

• May 1997 - Approved White Paper
  

• May 1997 - GYIBC endorsed concept of Brucellosis Management Action Plans for elk herd units in Wyoming and encouraged development of plans.

• May 1997 - GYIBC moved to undertake systematic plan to complete NEPA requirements for brucellosis risk management and elimination in the GYA.
  

• May 1997 - Adopted a position statement on the risk of brucellosis transmission.
  

• May 1998 - Adopted Protocol for evaluating safety and efficacy of a wildlife vaccine.

• January 1999 - Approved an informational paper on Interspecies Transmission of Brucella abortus.