Tag: cwd
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Indigenous Mapping Projects
IV Executive Director, Souta Callinglast has been working diligently in the field this summer visiting numerous significant places in Blackfeet Territory for the Chronic Wasting Disease(CWD)/contaminant monitoring project. This August she was able to personally show Working Dogs for Conservation and Penn State Vets the environmental variability in the project area.
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Chronic Wasting Disease
In 2020, Executive Director Souta Calling Last was mapping environmental stressors, disease and contaminants while listening to a senate update by Dr. Peter Larsen of MnPro Labs on Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). In the update it was mentioned that CWD prions can be taken up into plants and remain viable in roots, stems and leaves.…