Following the lead of Idaho, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department has directed its employees to shoot any elk/red deer hybrids that may show up in Wyoming after they escaped recently from an eastern Idaho game farm. The lethal removal of these animals will address potential disease and genetic hybridization Read more
CHEYENNE — Chronic wasting disease has pretty much established itself in some mule deer herds around Thermopolis in recent years, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s latest surveillance efforts show. Game and Fish commissioners on Friday adopted a new management plan that aims to slow the spread of the fatal Read more
THERMOPOLIS – Two mule deer collected from hunt area 37 near the Bighorn River have tested positive for chronic Wasting Disease, the third new CWD positive hunt area discovery in the Thermopolis area this fall. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department began collecting additional deer samples Nov. 16 after a Read more
CASPER – A white-tailed deer harvested in Hunt Area 9 near Newcastle has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The disease had not previously been found in deer Hunt Area 9. The deer was harvested on a ranch southeast of Newcastle in early October. The area is open to hunting Read more
THERMOPOLIS – Wyoming received some good news and bad news about chronic wasting disease this week. Although another deer hunt area in the Big Horn Basin – hunt area 120 west of Thermopolis – has had a deer test positive for chronic wasting disease, 51 extra deer harvested following the Read more
THERMOPOLIS – Two mature mule deer bucks harvested in hunt area 127 immediately northwest of Thermopolis have tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal brain disease that can affect all members of Wyoming’s deer family. CWD had not previously been detected in this area. Worland Wildlife Biologist Bart Read more
LARAMIE – The first deer and elk to test positive for chronic wasting disease in deer hunt area 77 and elk hunt area 8 south of Laramie were discovered this hunting season by the Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory and Game and Fish Department. The discovery was not surprising because CWD Read more
CHEYENNE – Deer and elk hunters across Wyoming and the region gave the Wyoming Game and Fish Department high marks for its work to address chronic wasting disease (CWD), according to a survey sponsored by the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. The mail survey, conducted by the College Read more
CHEYENNE — A ceremony will rename a state wildlife unit for two renowned wildlife disease researchers who died in a crash late last year. The Sybille Wildlife Research Center and Conservation Unit near Wheatland will be renamed the Tom Thorne/Beth Williams Wildlife Research Center at Sybille. The nearby Sybille-Johnson Creek Read more
KAYCEE – A white-tailed buck harvested from deer hunt area 30 and a mule deer buck harvested from deer hunt area 33 both tested positive for chronic wasting disease, a brain disease known to affect some of Wyoming’ s deer and elk herds. “Although CWD has been found in southeastern Read more