Author: Brett French

BILLINGS – Although wildlife aggregation is known to spread deadly chronic wasting disease (CWD) and brucellosis, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department is highlighting the new elk feedground management plan as a path forward without abandonment the training. The agency unveiled its strategy following four years of work that included statewide public meetings. Twenty-one winter elk feeding operations are managed by the department in western Wyoming. The state began the program in the winter of 1909-1910 to ensure that prized large animals would not starve as their traditional wintering grounds were divided and migration routes blocked by development such as…