The Boogeyman of Brucellosis

Legislative Audit finds Montana Dept. of Livestock not enforcing and ranchers not complying with Designated Surveillance Area rules

Ranchers fear disease, but only in wildlife.

Legislative Audit Division, A Report to the Montana Legislature Performance Audit Brucellosis Management in the State of Montana, Dept. of Livestock, Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks, January 2017.

Click on Legislative Audit (PDF) to download the report.

Click on Designated Surveillance Area (PDF) to download a map.

Despite taxpayer funding, incompetent implementation by the Montana Dept. of Livestock, and lack of rancher compliance with their own rules, the state’s brucellosis free status remains intact.

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Who is behind the creeping livestock control of wildlife in Montana?

Follow the money (PDF)

The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is paying for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks brucellosis management actions targeting wild elk in Montana. The taxpayer funding flows through the Montana Dept. of Livestock – from the same pot of money the livestock agency uses to destroy wild buffalo in the state.