Game Health in WY?

[blacktail slayer]

Here is an interesting study in Norway with moose. I’m wondering if the same affect will happen in Wyoming. The study was to see why moose in southern Norway are in significantly worse health than those further north and in eastern Norway, with lower carcass weights and lower reproduction rates. There are also several reported cases of osteoporosis and toxic nephrosis, a kidney disease.


Analysis shows that there is enough cadmium in the moose organs from southern Norway that hunters should think twice before they eat large amounts of foods made with moose liver or kidneys. There are higher levels of air pollution and higher levels of heavy metals in southern Norway than in the rest of the country.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1105085330.htm

So now I have read that Wyoming's smog exceeds Los Angeles' due to gas drilling.
http://content.usatoday.com/communit...gas-drilling/1

So does anyone think we will see any changes with the game in Wyoming?

[hunterhess33]

"High levels of ozone happen in the Upper Green River Basin only during the winter. They result from a combination of gas industry emissions, snow on the ground, bright sunshine and temperature inversions, in which cool air near the ground is trapped by a layer of warmer air. Pollution builds up during the day and becomes visible above the horizon as a thin layer of brown smudge — smog — by midafternoon."

"It's not the kind of smog that clouds and chokes the air at ground level."

I'm no expert but i dont think its going to affect wyoming game.

http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articl...em_smog/22159/