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July 7 , 2011
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Officials take part in a ceremony for a housing development in Williston. (Courtesy Photo)
Adc ilion may include 2,300 housing unit,,;
WILLISTON - A groundbreak-
ing was held last month for the
Harvest Hills Subdivision, a 280-
acre real estate subdivision project
that, "will posture Williston for
additional growth by providing
2,300 housing units over the three
phases of the project." said.
Williston Mayor Ward Koeser.
"Harvest Hills is a master planned
'mixed-use' project with a variety of
single family, multi-flurills,, neigh-
borhood businesses and inc6rporates
schools, a public park and pathway
system," said Ten'y Metzler, North
Dakota operations manager for
Granite Peak Development.
The company planned to break
ground on Monday on 120 acres in
phase 1. which will include land for
155 single family homes and 1,485
multi-family units.
"We plan to break ground on
phase 2 yet this fall.'" said Metzler.
"'That will add another 80 acres with
land for another 115 homes and 220
multi-family housing units. Phase 3
includes the tinal 80 acres and
would commeuce in 2012. Kiewit
Infrastructure Group will be doing
the earthwork, Knife River will be
doing all of the infrastructure such
as water, sewer, streets and side-
walks, and Sanderson-Stewart is
our engineering and design firm,"
said Metzler. "I suspect Williston
will see construction like they
haven't seen since the levees were
built in the 1950s."
Granite Peak Development
L.L.C. is a real estate developer in
Casper and Cheyenne, Wyo., and
over the past year has expanded its
interests into building in Williston.
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billion bovines
By Dr. E. Kirsten Peters
You and I have our challenges
and some real worries, too. There
are bills to pay and doctors to visit,
to say nothing of mulling over those
strange sounds coming from the
rear of the car.
But I confess I thought the life of
a cow was rather placid. Eating and
sleeping, I would have guessed,
pretty much summed up the exis-
tence of the more than one billion
bovines that share the planet with
US.
But as I've recently learned, both
beef cattle and dairy cows often
have trouble just catching their
breath. It's not that they are gaily
running across their pastures, frol-
icking joyfully in the sunlight, until
they simply overdo it. It's that they
are suffering - and I do mean sut-
fering - from serious infections of
their respiratory tracts.
The problem is caused by a mal-
ady called Bovine Respiratory
Disfase or BRD. It kills more than a
mill'ion animals each year in the
U.S., resulting in a loss of about
$700 million to American ranchers
and dairy, farmers. Those are stag-
gering figures, well known to those
involved with the beef and dairy
industries but oddly outside the
world of typical Americans who see
the food chain on which they
depend only via asles in the super-
market.
The BRD problem has been a
diflicult one for researchers to
address. It's a broad category of dis-
ease, a bit like pneumonia in us
humans. I might have pneumonia
due to a bactel:ial infection that's
enhanced bY the fact I'm drinking
far too much and staying up all
night. You might be living a healthy
life but nonetheless contract pneu-
monia due to a virus you happened
to pick up fi'om a little old lady at
clmrch.
BRD is likewise probably
caused by a variety of agents and
conditions. But it's useful to think
of it: as one problem because it ends
up causing a similar set of symp-
toms, ,just as pneumonia does.
Those symptoms lead cows to
struggle to get their breath. And
'despite modern veterinary ,science,
more than a million head of beef
and dairy cattle in this countQ, die
each year due to BRD.
A few strains of cattle clearly
have some resistance to BRD, a fact
that suggests that part of the BRD
picture is genetic. On .the other
hand, transporting cattle - which
introduces stress into their lives -
can increase the incidence of BRD.
And if sick animals are introduced
to a herd of cattle, BRD can spread
from the ill animals to the healthy
ones.
Animal scientist Holly Ne!bergs
at Washington State University is
one member of a team of
researchers recently formed to
research causes of BRD. Neibergs
will work to identify, genetic mark-
ers that correspond to susceptibility
or resistance to BRD. Simply put,
she'll try to find the genetic signa-
tures that are useful for attle so
they can better put up a serious fight
against respiratory infections.
Results could help determine the
selective breeding of cows to even-
tualfy reduce or even eliminate
BRD.
Neibergs and her collaborators
will examine 6,000 dairyand feed-
lot cattle in the U.S. for their
research. That's a lot of cows - cat-
tle that as I calculate it have a total
of 12,000 hind-end hoofs to kick
the researchers if they're not care-
ful.
"Prevention of respiratory dis-
ease will allow cattle and producers
to breath easier," Neibergs told me.
I wish Niebergs and her co-
workers the best for all sorts of rea-
sons. Clearly, limiting the wide
prevalence of BRD would aid a
major American industry. Beyond
that, it would also help keep food
prices as low as they can be for all
of us. And decreasing or even erad-
icating BRD would lessen the suf-
fering of the animals themselves.
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some milk) to that ideal.
(Dr. E. Kirsten Peters, a native
of the rural Northwest, was n'ained
as a geologist at Princeton and
Harvard.)
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