Chronic Wasting Disease

Missing Missoula woman Eva Prather's body was identified in the Clark Fork River, Chronic Wasting Disease found for the first time in an elk in the Ruby Mountains

Wildlife managers have decided to increase white-tailed deer hunting licenses in the Flathead Valley. The decision is in response to the area’s first detection of Chronic Wasting Disease earlier this week.

A highly contagious neurological disease has been found in a deer in the Flathead Valley. This is the first detection for this area.

Five Montana tribes have collectively been awarded over $5 million by the Environmental Protection Agency to improve recycling on their reservations. Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks (FWP) said chronic wasting disease was detected in a mule deer buck harvested near Deer Lodge last week.

Montana’s public education agency said it will again offer the GED test for the first time in nearly a decade. Montana’s delegates to the House of Representatives backed Ohio Republican Jim Jordan in a vote for leadership again Friday. Hunters will once again head into the woods Saturday for the opening of the deer and elk general rifle season.

Montana’s wildlife and public health agencies recommend game meat be tested for Chronic Wasting Disease (CSW). Snowbowl ski area outside of Missoula said it's working to improve safety conditions. CSKT and the U.S. EPA announced Friday that they signed an agreement aiming to bolster job opportunities for Salish Kootenai College students.

A case of Chronic Wasting Disease recently detected in a mule deer marks the first confirmed case of the contagious neurological condition within the city limits of Great Falls.

Montana's Blackfeet Nation is experimenting with a new way to detect chronic wasting disease in animals and toxic substances in plants used by tribal members for food and cultural practices.

Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks says the always fatal contagious neurological disease that infects deer, elk and moose was found in a white-tailed deer in hunting district 317 southeast of Livingston and north of Yellowstone Park.

State wildlife officials say chronic wasting disease was detected in a deer within the city limits of Baker in southeastern Montana. CWD is a fatal neurological disease that infects members of the deer family.