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Afton Senior Game Warden James Hobbs

Hobbs named 2024 Wildlife Officer of the Year

Afton Senior Game Warden *James Hobbs was named the 2024 Shikar-Safari Wildlife Officer of the Year for Wyoming* [ [link removed] ]. The award, given annually in every state and Canadian province by Shikar-Safari Club International, honors a wildlife officer whose efforts during the year display outstanding performance and achievement.






Your hunting calendar: 

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*January 2 – *Applications open for elk, deer and antelope.



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*January 2 – *Applications open for moose, bighorn sheep and mountain goat.



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*January 2 – *Applications open for spring turkey.



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*January 31 – *Deadline to apply for 2025 Super Tag.



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*January 31 – *Deadline to apply for nonresident elk.







New chief of wildlife announced at Game and Fish

Dan Smith, WGFD wildlife chief

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has a new chief of wildlife. *Dan Smith will lead the wildlife division* [ [link removed] ] to manage Wyoming’s diverse and charismatic fauna — as well as Game and Fish’s largest division.




*CWD found in new Wyoming hunt area*

CWD found in new hunt area

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has confirmed the presence of *chronic wasting disease [ [link removed] ]* in a cow elk from Elk Hunt Area 84.






*Game and Fish to offer training for new hunter education instructors*

Hunter education instructor teaching student

Are you interested in teaching the next generation of Wyoming hunters? The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is *looking for new volunteer hunter education instructors [ [link removed] ]* to help ensure new hunters have a thorough understanding of safety, ethics and conservation.







2024 Harvest Surveys
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This could be you

Imagine yourself on the hunt of a lifetime in the mountains. This could be you next year if you *win a 2025 Wyoming Super Tag* [ [link removed] ]. Already drew a once-in-a-lifetime license? No problem. Super Tag winners are exempt from the once-in-a-lifetime restriction.

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Conserving wildlife, Serving people

*Sportsperson Hotline:  *(307) 777-4600 | Open 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. MT Monday-Friday

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department manages and conserves more than 800 species of fish and wildlife across Wyoming.  For nearly 120 years, we’ve carried out our mission to conserve wildlife and serve people. Through these efforts, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department ensures the public continues to enjoy Wyoming’s vast fish and wildlife resource  through  hunting, fishing, trapping, wildlife watching and other forms of outdoor recreation. Hunters, anglers and wildlife watchers contribute over a billion dollars to Wyoming’s economy each year.

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