Five herds spread across the state are enrolled in the study: the Upper Shoshone (which borders Yellowstone National Park), North Bighorn, Wyoming Range, Sweetwater and Laramie Mountains.
If Wyoming keeps throwing hay to help elk survive the winter, the state is creating a future where wapiti will be ravaged by chronic wasting disease and dramatically reduced in
BUFFALO — Wyoming is grappling with how to keep enough elk on the landscape to wow wildlife enthusiasts and fill hunters’ freezers while preventing them from overpopulating and devouring too
If Wyoming keeps throwing hay to help elk survive the winter, the state is creating a future where wapiti will be ravaged by chronic wasting disease and dramatically reduced in
The projections of eight biologists including three employed by Game and Fish paint a dire picture of shrinking, CWD-riddled elk herds on the eve of the state’s first-ever elk feedground management plan.