Chronic Wasting Disease

Wildlife officials create new CWD management zone in Flathead;

Montana wildlife officials this hunting season completed a record number of tests for Chronic Wasting Disease. Fish, Wildlife and Parks says it tested more than 9,000 samples since the fall, and 3 percent came back positive.

Chronic wasting disease was detected for the first time on the Flathead Reservation. Tribal officials are now sampling deer herds to see how widespread the fatal disease is.

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.

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.