Hunters, we need your help with CWD monitoring

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department needs help from hunters this fall to collect lymph node samples from deer and elk for chronic wasting disease testing in focused monitoring hunt areas across Wyoming. Hunters play a critical role in helping Game and Fish understand the disease and achieve CWD monitoring goals.?

Deer Hunt Areas 59, 60, 64, 65, 157 and 171 require mandatory lymph node submissions for testing.?Areas 157 and 171 are mandatory for mule deer AND white-tailed deer samples.

Hunters: Win great prizes when you submit a CWD sample

Hunters are critical to monitoring chronic wasting disease in Wyoming, a fatal disease that affects moose, elk and deer in the state. Game and Fish is once again asking for hunters to provide lymph node samples from their harvested deer and elk this fall to test for CWD.?In return for samples, hunters may be eligible to win thousands of dollars in hunting gear.

Important CWD resources for hunters?

CWD testing information

2022 surveillance and monitoring flier

Carcass transport and disposal

Interactive map of CWD-positive hunt areas

Game and Fish podcast expands awareness of CWD

Taking a long drive this fall to your hunting destination? Pass the time with the Game and Fish podcast, "Get outside!" The special CWD audio series discusses disease management plans, monitoring and commonly asked questions.?

Ask Wyoming Game and Fish Department?

What are the rules for transporting deer, elk and moose in Wyoming to prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease? Deer, elk and moose hunters in Wyoming need to make a plan for transporting and disposing of processed carcasses this season.?Regulations are in place to limit the spread within Wyoming and to other states.

DIY: Take a chronic wasting disease sample

Watch a tutorial on?how to find and extract a lymph node sample for CWD testing.

Hunting season is in full swing! Download the regulations before you head into the field.

? Due to global supply chain issues at printing presses, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department is unable to provide a mailed, printed booklet of the 2022 Antelope, Deer and Elk Hunting Regulations to all license holders.?Hunters will need to download the regulations online and either self-print a copy or save the brochure to their mobile devices.

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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