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Articles with the Tag: chronic wasting disease

Kalispell holds CWD sample collection workshops

News from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks KALISPELL — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is offering two free instructional workshops in northwest Montana for hunters to learn how to collect chronic wasting disease (CWD) samples from deer, elk and moose. A workshop will be held in Kalispell on...

Big game hunting season concludes with mixed results in NW Montana

News from MT Fish, Wildlife & Parks KALISPELL — The general deer and elk hunting season concluded Nov. 27, 2022, and game check stations in northwest Montana reported mixed results. More than 9,200 hunters appeared at check stations in northwest Montana. The overall number of hunters with h...

FWP offering free clinics to teach hunters how to collect their own CWD samples

News from MT Fish, Wildlife & Parks KALISPELL — This fall, staff in Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ Region 1 (northwest Montana) will be offering free clinics to teach hunters how to collect lymph node samples from the animals they harvest to have them tested for chronic wasting dise...

CWD positives reported across the state, no new areas

News from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Park MONTANA — In early October, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks was notified of 18 deer from across the state that tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The positive deer all come from areas where CWD was previously known to exist, including hunti...

Hunters asked to help monitor for Chronic Wasting Disease Hunters asked to help monitor for Chronic Wasting Disease

MONTANA — Chronic wasting disease threatens deer, elk and moose populations in Montana. The spread of the disease is something all hunters should consider as they venture out this fall to harvest wild game. “CWD is a 100 percent fatal disease that infects members of the deer family, including ...

Flattening the curve on Chronic Wasting Disease

It’s cool this morning. There is a different feel to the air. The days are slowly getting shorter, my bird dogs are getting restless and I am listening for that first bugle of a bull elk down in the river bottom. It’s that time when I, and all hunters, anxiously prepare for the glorious days we s...

Briefs for May 27, 2020

White-tailed deer in Gallatin County suspected positive for CWD   News from FWP Bozeman — Initial test results have identified a white-tailed buck deer in Gallatin County as being suspect for carrying chronic wasting disease. The deer was euthanized earlier this month in the Springhill...

Chronic wasting disease creates new reality Chronic wasting disease creates new reality

MONTANA – The prevalence of chronic wasting disease in Montana has created “a new reality” for hunters and wildlife managers, just two years after it was first detected in the state. An extensive program of testing deer, elk and moose harvested across Montana from April 1, 2019 to Jan. 2...

142 animals test positive for CWD 142 animals test positive for CWD

News from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks HELENA — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks submitted 6,977 samples for chronic wasting disease testing during the 2019 season, which ran from April 1, 2019, to Jan. 29, 2020. Of those samples, 142 tested positive for the fatal disease, including 86 whi...

Second moose tests positive for chronic wasting disease in Libby area Second moose tests positive for chronic wasting disease in Libby area

News from FWP MONTANA — A second moose has tested positive for chronic wasting disease in northwest Montana. A hunter harvested the bull moose during the last week of the general hunting season near Fawn Creek southeast of Libby. The moose was harvested within the Libby CWD Management Zone near th...


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