Chronic wasting disease, which poses a grave threat to western Wyoming’s hay-fed wapiti, has been found for the first time in the Fall Creek Elk Herd. Elk stage along U.S. Highway 191 in fall 2024.
A long-awaited evaluation of northwest Wyoming’s elk feedgrounds kicks off in 2025 with the Jackson and Pinedale elk herds, two populations of wapiti that have long been lured toward human-doled ...