Cheyenne— A three-year-old female moose has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease in western Wyoming. CWD is a fatal neurological disease of deer, elk, and moose that affects the brain, causing weight loss, abnormal behavior, and, eventually, death. There is no evidence that CWD has any human-health implications. “This finding Read more
CHEYENNE– A long-term study looking at the effects of Chronic Wasting Disease on elk populations suggests the always-fatal disease may not cause precipitous declines in those populations. Researchers at the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Tom Thorne/Beth Williams Wildlife Research Center at Sybille have been looking at the long-term effects Read more
SHERIDAN– Two buck mule deer harvested on Oct. 3, 2008, in northeast Wyoming from deer hunt areas 26 and 29 tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), a brain disease known to affect some deer, elk and moose. One deer was harvested northeast of Buffalo, near Lake DeSmet in deer Read more
CHEYENNE– The Wyoming Game and Fish Department will once again be collecting samples from deer and elk this fall to test for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in the state’s deer and elk herds. Samples from moose will also be taken. Chronic wasting disease is a fatal neurological disease that has Read more
Wyoming only monitors spread of chronic wasting disease while some call for action. In December 2006, Laramie resident Ken Mills was hunting with two friends near the Lincoln Monument just off Interstate 80 when they spotted a herd of elk huddled together. Mills drew a bead on a cow elk Read more
WORLAND— Hunters keeping track of where Chronic Wasting Disease has been discovered can now add another Big Horn Basin deer hunt area to their list—Fifteen Mile or deer hunt area 125. A mature male mule deer, harvested along Gooseberry Creek southwest of Worland, tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), Read more
LARAMIE – A cow elk near Encampment and two mule deer near Kaycee have tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) marking the first time either area has had positive tests for elk or deer in those hunt areas. CWD is a brain disease known to affect some moose, deer Read more
SHERIDAN – A mule deer buck harvested from deer hunt area 23, east of Sheridan near Ucross, tested positive for chronic wasting disease, a brain disease known to affect some moose deer and elk. “Although CWD has been found in southeastern Wyoming for a number of years, this is the Read more
CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has finished its fourth year of comprehensive Chronic Wasting Disease surveillance and added two deer hunt areas and two elk hunt areas to its list of areas where CWD has been detected. Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a fatal neurological disease that Read more
CASPER – A white-tailed deer harvested in hunt area 4 east of Sundance has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The disease had not previously been detected in that hunt area. The buck deer was harvested in the Moskee area on Nov. 4. “We’re concerned that CWD continues to spread Read more