Wyoming Game and Fish Department
POWELL — With a herd of 400 elk wandering through the vast fields and hobby farms near Heart Mountain, Wyoming Game and Fish Department game wardens and wildlife technicians have the important job of ensuring the herd doesn’t commingle with livestock or damage winter crops and fences.
The...
Grizzly 399 sizes up the Snake River before a crossing in May 2022. The celebrity of bears like Grizzly 399 has exacerbated tensions about the prospect of grizzly hunting. (Mike Koshmrl/WyoFile)
Future Wyoming grizzly bear hunts — a near certainty if federal authorities approve the state’s petition to again remove the animals’ Endangered Species Act protections — would likely target more than triple the number of bruins than previously proposed hunts, according to a state analysis.
The...
JACKSON — This fall, wildlife managers are planning to offer 90% fewer tags to hunt elk in Grand Teton National Park.
In 2022, they offered 475 tags. This year, they’re proposing to offer only 40.
The 2023 season could also be cut two weeks short.
The reason: The Jackson Elk Herd, which state...
Pronghorn in the snow. (John Fandek)
Toward the end of each hard winter, Wyoming Game and Fish Department gets the word out about dead animals: Mule deer falling over from starvation or pronghorn caught in fences or hit by vehicles.
Those announcements ask people to slow down on highways, stay off of closed winter ranges and not...
EVANSTON — In the course of a particularly harsh winter, roughly 30 pronghorn have died outside of the Uinta BOCES No. 1 building on Cheyenne Drive, but Wyoming Game and Fish have yet to discover why.
Samples from the carcasses were screened for a bovine disease comparable to viral pneumonia...
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Buffalo, WY – March 15, 2023: The WYldlife Fund, a charitable...
JACKSON — This winter is killing mule deer fawns in Wyoming’s largest herd, and may be exacerbating a pneumonia outbreak in pronghorn near Pinedale.
“This is a real deal winter and we’re in the thick of it at the moment,” Ian Tator, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s terrestrial habitat...
POWELL — A Yellowstone National Park wildlife biologist on a radio telemetry flight Tuesday observed the first grizzly bear of 2023 to emerge from hibernation.
The adult bear, estimated at 300-350 pounds, was seen near the remains of a bison carcass in Pelican Valley, near Yellowstone Lake.
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BUFFALO — Much of Wyoming is covered with a thicker-than-usual blanket of snow this winter. And while that has created plenty of headaches for agricultural producers with domestic animals, it also poses hardships for wildlife.
Christina Schmidt, a Wyoming Game and Fish Department education and...
CASPER —Outdoor recreation and tourism are critical economic drivers for many Wyoming communities. In 2021, the outdoor recreation industry contributed $1.5 billion to Wyoming’s economy, accounting for 3.6% of the state’s gross domestic product, according to the Wyoming Office of Outdoor Recreation...
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