The Game Commission is looking to remove some deer hunting regulations regarding CWD as well as improve the chances for ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is reminding deer and elk hunters who bag an animal this fall to have it tested for chronic wasting disease. The disease, which has never been confirmed in ...

Despite legislative testimony saying it was unlikely to happen, some of Idaho’s domestic elk farms have proven to be porous with multiple examples of wild animals getting into the high-fenced ...

CORRECTION: Predicted CWD prevalence rates and population sizes have been updated in the third paragraph of this story. The prior numbers used were for a slightly broader geographic area, but the ...

A domestic elk that escaped from an eastern Idaho domestic elk facility and was killed by a hunter outside of the facility’s fence has tested negative for chronic wasting disease, state officials said ...

URBANA, Ill. – Chronic Wasting Disease, a prion protein disease that is fatal in elk, deer, and other cervids, has spread rapidly across the United States since it was first identified in 1967. CWD ...

If you’ve hunted big game in Idaho, odds are good you’ve heard about chronic wasting disease, and hopefully, you know the basics of this incurable, fatal disease that infects deer, elk and moose. But ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance in southwestern Nebraska identified 197 positive cases in deer during the November and December hunting seasons. The ...

SHELBY- Management of CWD in North-Central Montana has so far lead to a scheduled hunt and several informational meetings. At least two meetings are scheduled to inform the community about the current ...

Four new hunting districts across the state recorded a detection of Chronic Wasting Disease since July 2025, the Montana ...