1st Elk with CWD Found in Grand Teton National Park | | Big Horn Radio Network

Written by Andrew-Rossi on December 20, 2020
Another fearsome disease has found its way into the heart of one of Wyoming’s protected places and greatest controversies.
Wyoming Game and Fish has confirmed that an elk in Grand Teton National Park has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease on Dec. 16. The department’s Wildlife Health Laboratory ran samples from a cow elk harvested thru Grand Teton’s herd reduction program.
Its mandatory for elk harvested in the park to be tested for CWD as Game and Fish continues to monitor the debilitating disease and its spread throughout Wyoming. Intensive CWD surveillance of the Jackson elk herd has been ongoing since 2009, with over  4,500 CWD samples collected and tested for the entire Jackson elk herd with more than 1,400 samples collected through the park’s elk reduction program alone.

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