CHEYENNE– Every year as hunting seasons get underway, Game and Fish offices receive numerous questions about various game laws and what hunters can and cannot do while in the field.
Some of the questions come from new residents who are not familiar with Wyoming law and how our laws may differ from their previous residence. Most [...]
September 22, 2008 | Posted in
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The nine-township area of northwest Kent County surrounding the captive deer facility that produced a deer with chronic wasting disease – Tyrone, Solon, Nelson, Sparta, Algoma, Courtland, Alpine, Plainfield and Cannon — is the surveillance zone.
What does that mean?
All deer killed by hunters in the surveillance zone must be taken to a Department of Natural [...]
September 18, 2008 | Posted in
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GREEN RIVER– All Wyomingites, especially landowners, are being asked to assist in the management of the state’s trademark sage grouse populations by immediately reporting dead sage grouse so they can be tested for West Nile Virus. Past research has shown sage grouse have low resistance to the disease and is usually fatal to the birds.
Tom [...]
July 30, 2008 | Posted in
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Flies buzz around the elk carcass as the research biologist examines the marrow in a leg bone, looking for clues to whether the starving calf was killed by a mountain lion or wolves.
“It’s a dark red; it’s gelatin,” Fish and Game biologist Craig White said as he pointed to the bloody cross section of a [...]
June 2, 2008 | Posted in
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