CRAIG – Orange banners reading “Welcome Hunters” outnumber the few political placards in this small town in northwestern Colorado. Camouflage- and orange-clad hunters from Pennsylvania to California line up to buy licenses in sporting goods stores and to have their game processed in meat shops where some employees work 14-hour Read more
Hunters who want their elk or deer heads tested for chronic wasting disease needn’t be intimidated by the unfamiliar procedure. Essentially, peace of mind is as simple as filling out a form, tossing a deer or elk head into a barrel and waiting a week or two for results. Outside Read more
FORT COLLINS – The first load of elk brains and lymph node tissue to be tested for chronic wasting disease has landed at the diagnostic laboratory at Colorado State University. “We received 300 samples last night and 400 this morning,” Barb Powers, the veterinary lab’s director said Wednesday. “We have Read more
A deer kill by a vehicle about four miles east of Hayden in northwest Colorado has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The animal, found in game management unit 13, was sent in for testing as part of the Colorado Division of Wildlife’s routine surveillance foedr chronic wasting disease. The Read more
A buck mule deer killed by a hunter in Mesa County has tested positive for CWD. A buck mule deer killed by a hunter in northeastern Mesa County on the Western Slope has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). The deer was taken with a muzzleloader Sept. 20 about Read more
BULL ELK WITH WASTING DISEASE FOUND IN SUMMIT COUNTY A bull elk taken west of Green Mountain Reservoir has tested positive for chronic wasting disease, the first time the disease has been found in Summit County. A bull elk killed by a hunter west of Green Mountain Reservoir on Sept. Read more
An injured elk killed by a Division of Wildlife officer Sept. 6 in Routt County tested positive for chronic wasting disease, the first time an elk with the disease has been found outside the endemic area. An injured elk killed by a Colorado Division of Wildlife officer on Sept. 6 Read more
The EPA is scrutinizing laboratory practices at the Colorado Division of Wildlife, worried that the infectious agents believed to cause chronic wasting disease could wash into public sewers and underground septic tanks. Water regulators with the Environmental Protection Agency could require wildlife officials to alter plumbing at division laboratories in Read more