Deer hunt area a focus point for CWD monitoring

The hunt area on the western border of Crook County is among this year’s focus points for chronic wasting disease (CWD) monitoring.

Wyoming Game & Fish has been working to understand the distribution and prevalence of the always-fatal disease since 1997, using focused sampling due to the limited testing capacity of the Game & Fish Wildlife Health Laboratory.

Submitting a sample of a deer harvested in hunt area 18 will not be mandatory this year. However, as a focus area, Game & Fish is requesting that hunters assist through a voluntary sample.

Mandatory sample submission areas for 2024 are mai...