Tests have found a deer acting strangely in the Philpsburg area in January did not have chronic wasting disease.

A new Idaho rule requires non-resident shed hunters to buy a big-game license, and it's one of several new or unique rules in ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks collected the largest number of Chronic Wasting Disease samples ever in a single year in ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks submitted 9,066 samples for chronic wasting disease testing in 2024-2025 hunting season to date. This is the largest number of CWD samples ever to be ...

Each year, 11 hunters win the opportunity to purchase a license to hunt iconic Wyoming species including bighorn sheep, moose, elk, mountain goat, mule deer or white-tailed deer, wild bison, pronghorn ...

A recent CWD positive mule deer on the Flathead ... definitely. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) is reminding hunters to have their harvested deer, elk and moose tested for CWD.

On Monday, the state Senate rejected Senate File 3, “Mule and whitetail deer-separate hunting seasons,” in a 19-12 vote. On the Senate floor last week, Sen. Ogden Driskill, R-Devils Tower ...

And he said he did not understand why it was necessary to visit other Montana ... s urban deer population acquired new urgency after a mule deer buck killed in the fall of 2023 in a hunting ...

Pearson cited those hard times as inspiration for bringing a bill, Senate File 118, “Landowner hunting tags-amendments ... property for two days or 40 mule deer for 50 days).

In Colorado, CWD was responsible for a 36% reduction in the mule deer population from 2003 to 2013, despite a cut in hunting tags. Game and Fish is trying to prevent the disease from taking off here.

CHEYENNE — A measure to separate mule deer hunting licenses from whitetail deer licenses made it past a panel of lawmakers Tuesday. The Senate Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources ...