chronic wasting disease

The animals would then be expected to forage for food during all but perhaps the most severe winters.

Although the disease has been previously documented in deer in an overlaying hunt area, this is the first time an elk has tested positive.

Up to now, participation in the monitoring program was voluntary.

Game and Fish makes announcements when CWD is found in a hunting area and a map of CWD affected areas is available online.

Kroger says the disease is showing up in less than 5 percent of tested animals in hunting areas around Ten Sleep.

The ruling sends the matter back to the Forest Service to address the issue.

Animals have tested positive for chronic wasting disease in Park, Fremont, Sublette and Lincoln counties.

Officials say there is no way to completely wipe out the disease right now.

Chronic wasting disease is a neurological animal disease that appeared in Montana this fall.

Barb Beck with Fish, Wildlife and Parks says the hunt will be a milestone for how the state approaches chronic wasting disease.