Coccidia of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in Western Canada

1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (11) ◽  
pp. 1461-1464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie S. Uhazy ◽  
Jerome L. Mahrt ◽  
John C. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
National Park ◽  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Bighorn Sheep ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Fecal Samples

A survey of coccidia in the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep (Ovis. c. canadensis) in Alberta and Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, was conducted from the winter of 1967 to the spring of 1969. Ninety percent of 510 fecal samples examined were positive for coccidia. The species recovered, in order of prevalence, were Eimeria ovina (syn., E. arloingi) (56%), E. parva (35%), E. crandallis (34%), E. ahsata (33%), E. ninakohlyakimovae (19%), E. faurei (6%), E. intricata (5%) and E. granulosa (1%). Coccidiosis was not encountered in the field; however, evidence which suggests the magnitude of pathogenic infections is presented.

Helminths of the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in Western Canada

1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 507-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie S. Uhazy ◽  
John C. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Relative Abundance ◽  
National Park ◽  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Bighorn Sheep ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Taenia Hydatigena ◽  
Fecal Samples ◽  
Marshallagia Marshalli ◽  
Moniezia Expansa

Thirty-six Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep (Ovis c. canadensis), 33 from four areas in Alberta and 3 from Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, were examined for helminths. Data from these examinations were supplemented by examination of 462 fecal samples from the same areas.Seventeen species of helminths were recovered: 3 cestodes, Moniezia expansa and Wyominia tetoni and the cysticerci of Taenia hydatigena; and 14 nematodes, Capillaria sp., Marshallagia marshalli, Nematodirus archari, N. davtiani, N. maculosus, N. oiratianus, N. spathiger, Ostertagia circumcincta, O. occidentalis, Protostrongylus rushi, P. stilesi, Skrjabinema ovis, Teladorsagia davtiani, and Trichuris ovis. The records of Capillaria sp., Nematodirus maculosus, and Teladorsagia davtiani are apparently the first from bighorn sheep. Nine other records are new for bighorn sheep in Canada.Total numbers of helminths (excluding lungworms) per bighorn ranged from 36 to 8345. There was little variation in the prevalence or the relative abundance of the different species in the areas sampled.

Lungworms in the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep of western Canada

1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (8) ◽  
pp. 817-824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie S. Uhazy ◽  
John C. Holmes ◽  
John G. Stelfox
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Seasonal Variation ◽  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Bighorn Sheep ◽  
Evolutionary Significance ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Fecal Samples ◽  
Winter Range ◽  
Significant Seasonal Variation ◽  
Near Term

In 58 sets of lungs from bighorns from western Alberta or eastern British Columbia, 91% were infected with Protostrongylus stilesi, and 38% were infected with P. rushi. Four of the five sheep free of P. stilesi were lambs. Lungs from nine near-term fetuses were negative for lungworms.All but 1 of 409 field-collected fecal samples from the same ranges contained larvae of Protostrongylus spp.; counts of larvae per gram of dry feces suggest a clumped distribution of lungworms. Analysis of monthly samples from one herd indicated a significant seasonal variation, with high numbers of larvae shed by bighorns on winter range. The use of fecal analyses in assessing severity of infection and the evolutionary significance of the clumped distribution of lungworms are discussed.

THE ATHABASCA VALLEY ERRATICS TRAIN, ALBERTA AND PLEISTOCENE ICE MOVEMENTS ACROSS THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE

1967 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 625-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Roed ◽  
E. W. Mountjoy ◽  
N. W. Rutter
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Late Stage ◽  
National Park ◽  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Metamorphic Rocks ◽  
Jasper National Park ◽  
Continental Divide ◽  
Park Area

The Athabasca Valley Erratics Train contains a variety of low- to medium- grade metamorphic rocks, the most abundant of which is talcose schist, with lesser amounts of garnet schist and biotite–quartz schist. This erratics train occurs in and west of the Athabasca Valley west of Edson, Alberta. It is probably a late stage deposit of the same glacier that carried and deposited the Erratics Train, Foothills of Alberta. The metamorphic erratics were incorporated into a glacier that originated in the northern part of the Monashee Mountains and Premier Range of British Columbia. This ice movement is also recorded by numerous U-shaped valleys, which extend across the Continental Divide. Thus, during a brief period in late(?) Wisconsin time, the Cordilleran ice in the Rocky Mountains of the Jasper National Park area was partly derived from west of the Continental Divide and the Rocky Mountain Trench. These data agree with the inferred ice movements shown on the 1958 Glacial Map of Canada.

Archaeocyathids and the Lower Cambrian Continental Shelf of the Canadian Cordillera

1975 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 2014-2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. R. Stelck ◽  
A. S. Hedinger
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Lower Cambrian ◽  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Canadian Cordillera ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Early Cambrian ◽  
Structural Trend ◽  
East And West

The geographic occurrences of archaeocyathids are plotted for the Cordilleran region of western Canada. The archaeocyathids are found both east and west of, and within the Rocky Mountain Trench in British Columbia and are found east and west of the Tintina Trench in the southern Yukon. The overall pattern of the occurrences indicates that the shallow neritic portion of the continental shelf in Early Cambrian time traces a pattern widely diverse from that of the later, superimposed, Laramide structural trend. Portions of the continental shelf were already in existence west of the Rocky Mountain Trench by Early Cambrian time.

Interrelationships of Ledum species and their rust parasites in Western Canada and Alaska

1969 ◽  
Vol 47 (7) ◽  
pp. 1085-1100 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. B. O. Savile
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
National Park ◽  
Cascade Range ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Banff National Park ◽  
As Species ◽  
Specific Rank ◽  
Sympatric Zone

Ledum glandulosum extends northward from Western United States into southern British Columbia in and east of the Cascade Range and into extreme SE British Columbia and SW Alberta in the Rocky Mts. Further north, within the range of L. groenlandicum but beyond that of L. glandulosum, hybrids between the two species occur, notably in and near Banff National Park, indicating that L. glandulosum formerly extended further north. The hybrids form an irregular swarm among typical L. groenlandicum rather than a cline; for this reason, and because of numerous morphological and other distinctions, the taxa are maintained as species. L. groenlandicum and L. palustre ssp. decumbens overlap in Alaska, Yukon, and Mackenzie in a belt up to 700 miles wide. Six definite hybrids were detected out of ca. 300 specimens from the sympatric zone, and ca. 30 specimens showed signs of probable minor introgression. The marked sympatry with minimal hybridization makes it necessary to maintain L. groenlandicum at specific rank. A rust, Chrysomyxa ledicola, that freely attacks L. palustre ssp. decumbens and L. groenlandicum does not infect L. glandulosum, but it attacks the hybrids in the Banff region except those closely approaching L. glandulosum. Another rust, C. ledi, has developed morphologically distinct varieties each specialized to a single Ledum. In the Banff region hybrids have been found between C. ledi var. glandulosi and C. l. var. groenlandici on L. glandulosum × groenlandicum. C. ledi var. ledi, on L. palustre (including ssp. decumbens) is morphologically distinct from C. ledi var. groenlandici, further emphasizing the sharp distinctness of L. groenlandicum from L. palustre ssp. decumbens.

Westerly derived Early Cretaceous gold paleoplacers in the Western Canada foreland basin, southwestern Alberta: tectonic and economic implications

1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (8) ◽  
pp. 1079-1092 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale A. Leckie ◽  
David Craw
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Gold Content ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Quartz Veins ◽  
Sedimentary Succession

Albian-aged (Early Cretaceous) igneous pebble to cobble conglomerates fill multiple, northeast–southwest-oriented, subparallel channels in the upper Blairmore Group (upper Beaver Mines and Mill Creek formations) of the Rocky Mountain foreland basin, southwestern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia. Paleocurrent data show that the conglomerate was derived from the west. Clast petrography implies a provenance that includes granitoids, mafic volcanics, low-grade metamorphic rocks, and shallow-level (ca. 7 km depth) postmetamorphic quartz veins formed from meteoric fluids. The conglomerate was probably derived from the southern Omineca Belt of British Columbia prior to the rise of the Rocky Mountains. The conglomerate contains detrital gold grains up to 150 μm in diameter, and chemical analyses indicate widespread anomalous gold concentrations (up to 910 ppb Au) in conglomerate matrix. Gold content in these igneous-clast conglomerates excèdes that reported from the richest modern placers in Alberta. Less pronounced but persistent As anomalies (up to 260 ppm) occur also. Postdepositional alteration of conglomerate matrix chemically mobilized Au and As from their detrital source grains and redistributed these elements. Gold enrichment in the igneous-clast conglomerate contrasts strongly with background gold concentrations in the underlying conglomeratic Cadomin Formation. The gold concentrations in the igneous-clast conglomerate demonstrate that paleoplacers derived from the Canadian Cordillera have accumulated in the Western Canada foreland basin, a sedimentary succession previously dismissed as a host for detrital gold.

The Occurrence of Cuterebra (Diptera, Oestridae) in Western Canada

Parasitology ◽  
1926 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 430-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred E. Cameron
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Spotted Fever ◽  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever ◽  
Tamias Striatus ◽  
North West ◽  
North West Territories ◽  
Prevalent Species

Reference to the National Insect Collection at Ottawa shows that species of the genus Cuterebra have been collected in various localities of Western Canada at different times. Of these Cuterebra grisea Coq. is distributed throughout Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, North-West Territories and British Columbia. There is one record each of C. emasculator Fitch (determined by Aldrich as C. fontinella Clark), of which the locality is unknown, and of C. fasciata Swenk, from Peachland, British Columbia. The specimen of C. emasculator bears a note that it had been reared from a chipmunk, Tamias striatus lysteri Richardson. The remaining species, C. americana var. polita Coq., C. similis Johnson and C. tenebrosa Coq. have all been collected in British Columbia. There is but a single record from the Eastern Provinces and that a specimen of C. fasciata from Bathurst, New Brunswick, dated August, 1900. Altogether there are 22 specimens in the National Collection belonging to six species. Of these there are 11 specimens of C. grisea, which would thus appear to be the most prevalent species in Western Canada. The comparative paucity of specimens may be correctly attributed to the peculiarly shy habits of the species, the adults of which, according to information furnished me by Criddle, prefer rather dark situations, such as outbuildings, summer kitchens and the ground burrows of rodents. They occur on the wing from June to September and are probably to be found closely attendant upon the haunts of their rodent hosts. That the percentage of parasitism is not high is concluded from the fact that Parker and Wells (1919), in a careful examination of over a thousand rodents in Montana for possible infestation by the Rocky Mountain spotted fever tick, Dermacentor venustus Banks, found but two that were parasitised, each with one larva of C. tenebrosa.

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