Dead mule deer tests positive.
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CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has diagnosed chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a mule deer doe that was found dead near Pinedale.
As part of its CWD Management Plan, Game and Fish increased CWD monitoring on and around the state’s elk feedgrounds and big game winter ranges this year. To accomplish this goal, Game and Fish hired additional technicians in the Jackson and Pinedale regions and one of those technicians removed a dead doe mule deer from a person’s yard near the Pinedale Airport in February. The doe mule deer tested positive for CWD.
The disease has the highest prevalence rates in deer, but also is found in elk and to a lesser degree, moose. This deer was found in Deer Hunt Area 139, where CWD has not been pre- viously discovered and is not adjacent to any other positive CWD deer, elk or moose hunt areas.