I wrote the quoted comment and stand by it. Your logic is flawed.

In response: The CO2 in question is produced by a process (thus adding to the atmospheric CO2) and could be sequestered instead of releasing it to the atmosphere to keep a dead guy frozen.

Thus the carbon footprint is being caused by the demand for dry ice to keep a dead guy frozen.

"We're wondering if there's some perfect storm – some ideal set of environmental circumstances favoring the pathogens," Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks regional wildlife manager Mike Thompson said. "These organisms are in the environment and in the sheep all the time. But with three different herds like this (having pneumonia outbreaks), are there just circumstances that increase the probability?"

A Rock Creek resident reported seeing a sick bighorn ram in the drainage about 30 miles east of Missoula last week. That was the same time FWP crews were trying to control a disease outbreak above West Riverside, and two months after pneumonia ravaged a herd south of Darby.

There's no vaccine or effective treatment for pneumonia in wild sheep. Between 70 percent and 90 percent of sick sheep die within weeks of infection.

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