chronic wasting disease
POWELL — Hunting areas around Powell are being hit hard by Chronic Wasting Disease, with prevalence for the disease hitting nearly half of all bucks.
CWD is fatal to wildlife; infected animals usually succumb within two years of contracting the highly contagious disease.
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SUNDANCE (WNE) — A permit has been approved to allow the City of Sundance to cull double the number of deer this year with no restrictions on season timing.
The city is implementing a year-round cull in response to evidence that chronic wasting disease (CWD) may be more prevalent than previously...
SUNDANCE (WNE) — Sundance is implementing a year-round deer cull in response to evidence that chronic wasting disease (CWD) may be much more prevalent than previously thought in the vicinity of the city.
Game Warden Nate Holst attended last week’s meeting of the city council to present a...
JACKSON (WNE) — For the time being, chronic wasting disease is “less of a concern” than a host of other nasties to dogs that like sniffing out and gnawing on the remains of wild animals.
The other, more pressing concerns include picking up botulism from gut piles or ingesting a piece of bone that...
JACKSON – Soon after Michele Voorhees pulled the trigger, she realized something was up.
It was Sept. 16 and Voorhees, 58, was out hunting in Granite Creek with her niece when they saw a mule deer grazing just across the creek. She pulled the trigger and hit the buck in the lungs. But when the...
JACKSON (WNE) — Chronic wasting disease continues to encircle the National Elk Refuge, northwest Wyoming’s largest feedground where thousands of elk spend the winter.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department reported Monday that samples from a buck mule deer hunted in September came back positive. It...
It’s that time of year again for hunters to don their camouflage, load up their firearms and bows and head into the quiet serenity of the wilderness to see if they’re lucky enough to bring home wild game. Local Wyoming Game and Fish Department wildlife biologist Joe Sandrini projected what the 2022...
POWELL — Two hunt areas south of Powell have been listed as special Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) focus areas.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is looking for samples from deer hunters harvesting mule and white-tailed deer from areas 124 and 165 in the Greybull River Valley.
CWD is a fatal...
POWELL — Two hunt areas south of Powell have been listed as special Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) focus areas.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is looking for samples from deer hunters harvesting mule and white-tailed deer from areas 124 and 165 in the Greybull River Valley.
CWD is a fatal...
CODY — Chronic wasting disease continues to evade Wyoming Game and Fish staff. Despite many years of attempts to corral the disease, the number of deer infected with the neurological illness has not waned, but hope may be on the horizon.
“What we’re seeing in some of these areas, where there is...
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