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Game and Fish tests for diseased animals
Wyoming Game and Fish
Department
The Wyoming Game and Fish
Department needs the help of hunters
this fall to collect samples from mule
deer for chronic wasting disease
testing.
In October, Game and Fish is espe-
cially focusing their efforts around
Newcastle, notably on mule deer har-
vested in Region B (Deer Hunt Areas
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 21).
The Department is asking hunters that
harvest mule deer in these areas to
submit samples to Game and Fish
for testing. According to Newcastle
CWD confirmed in
two new hunt areas
wildlife biologist Joe Sandrini, the
department hopes to make this easier
on hunters. To make sample submis—
sion easier on hunters he will run a
CWD sampling check stations on Oct.
1 and 2 in the AIM equipment parking
lot at the junction of Highways 450 and
16, and on Oct. 3 and 4 at the Flying V,
Cambria Processing. These check sta-
tions will be open from approximately
8 am. to 6 pm. each day.
Since 1997, Game and Fish has
been monitoring the distribution and
prevalence of CWD to better under-
stand how this disease affects the health
of Wyoming’s deer and elk popula-
tions. Early on, their efforts focused on
Wyoming Game and Fish
Department
The Wyoming Game and
Fish Department has confirmed
two new hunt areas where deer
and elk have tested positive for
chronic wasting disease in the
Sheridan Region.
CWD was confirmed
in Deer Hunt Area 25 in the
Bighorn Mountains with a
positive test from an adult doe
mule deer that died during a
Game and Fish capture opera-
tion. Deer Hunt Area 25 is
surrounded on three sides by
four known CWD positive deer
hunt areas.
In Elk Hunt Area 123 near
Wright, a sick elk was sampled
by Game and Fish personnel,
testing positive for CWD.
Although Elk Hunt Area 123 is
newly-positive for elk, the cor-
responding Deer Hunt Areas,
8 and 21, have been known
positive since 2003 and 2019,
respectively.
To ensure that hunters are
informed, Game and Fish
announces when CWD is found
in a new hunt area. The Centers
for Disease Control recom-
mends hunters do not consume
any animal that is obviously ill
or tests positive for CWD.
Continued monitoring of
CWD over time is important
to help Game and Fish under-
stand the potential impacts of
the disease as well as evaluate
future management actions for
deer and elk. A map of CWD
endemic areas is available on
the Game and Fish website.
The disease is fatal to deer, elk
and moose.
Throughout the fall,
Game and Fish is asking
hunters to collect lymph node
samples from deer and elk
for CWD testing in focused
monitoring hunt areas across
Wyoming. Hunters are an
important component in
helping Game and Fish under-
stand the disease and achieve
CWD monitoring goals.
Game and Fish is targeting
deer hunt areas 7-15, 19, 21,
29-34, 61, 74-77, 88, 89, 96,
97, 105, 106, 109, 121-124,
132, 133, 157, 163, 165, 168,
169 and 171.
detection of CWD in new areas around
the state and monitoring. CWD has
now been identified in most deer hunt
areas in Wyoming. As a result, Game
and Fish is now concentrating on more
intense monitoring and developing
CWD management actions.
Detecting changes in CWD
prevalence over time is important to
help understand impacts the disease
may have and to evaluate manage-
ment actions for deer and elk. This
is challenging, because, according to
Sandrini, estimating CWD occurrence
requires collecting many samples from
each herd.
The veteran biologist noted, “Since
Elk focus hunt areas include
55, 56, 58-61, 66, 75, 77, 79,
the Game and Fish Wildlife Health
Laboratory has limited testing capacity,
focused sampling, like that occurring
in Region B this year, will rotate to
different herds each year.”
He added, “For this focused
testing to be successful, and moni-
toring goals to be reached, help from
hunters is critical.”
In addition to encouraging hunters
to help with CWD sampling, Sandrini
wanted to remind hunters that antelope
do not contract CWD. However, he
noted that antelope hunting this year
may be difficult.
“Our antelope herd has dropped
quite a bit, with our summer counts
Round ‘em up!
being some of the lowest I have seen
in 25 years,” Sandrini said.
He attributes the decrease to a harsh
winter the year before last, increased
spring mortality and low fawn produc-
tion the past two years, along with the
lag time between the season setting
process and herd data collection.
Sandrini added, “Unfortunately, we
probably issued more licenses than
we should have this year, but the level
of population drop we seem to have
wasn’t confirmed until this summer
after archery season had started.”
As such, Sandrini said that antelope
seasons in Weston County Will likely
be reduced over the next few years.
Braving the dust and the many large and dangerous animals, cowboys show
excellent skill and knowledge in han-
dling the herd at Custer State Park. Brad and Rachel Easton, from northeast
Iowa outside of Sioux City, are excited
for their first viewing of theyBuffalo Roundup. Both of them say they love
it in South Dakota and are thinking of
moving there- the near future. ' L ’ H
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84, 85, 88-91, 97, 98 and 102-
105.
In 2019, Game and Fish
personnel tested 5,067 CWD
samples and continues to eval-
uate new recommendations for
trying to manage the disease.
Please visit the Game and
Fish website for more informa—
tion on chronic wasting disease
testing, transmission and regu-
lations on transportation and
disposal of carcasses.
Story Photos by
Walter Sprague
Arts & Culture Reporter
On Friday, Custer State Park held its
annual Buffalo Roundup. The purpose
of the roundup is to brand and vaccinate
the calves, but it also is used to size the
herd to coincide with the estimated fol-
liage available for the herd.
“Studies show that during normal
moisture years, the park’s grassland
can support about 1,400 head of bison,”
herd manager Chad Kremer said in the
2020 publication, “Custer. State Park,
Tatanka.” “That number fluctuates
depending on the rainfall and the avail-
able rangeland forage.”
Since the diet of the bison is not
supplemented, and rainfall has been low,
the herd is estimated to be about 1,200
to 1,300 head this year. The park is
making an effort to build the herd back
up to the 1,400 head they like to see.
Visitors from across the nation
and often from around the world
— come to the park to witness the
event. But according to visitor service
manager Kobee Stalder, almost all the
visitors this year are probably from the
United States. Still, he estimated that the
number has increased this year to well
beyond 20,000 visitors.
Survival camp teaches teamwOrk and fellowship
he biggest growths come
I through the biggest chal-
lenges, and this last week was
an indescribably incredible and chal-
lenging week at Survival, through
Bold Ministries, at Camp Judson in
Keystone, S.D.
Team bonding, fellowship with
like-minded believers in Christ, star-
gazing and worshiping our Creator
under the curtain of bright and
clear lights and just enjoying being
outdoors in God’s beautiful creation
made this week
full of joy. We
also learned so
many valuable
lessons about
teamwork, what
to do in a sur-
vival situation,
1 reading maps and
so much more.
It’s difficult
to narrow down
my experience
to just a few activities, but one of
my favorite things about the week
was getting to know my team and
working together to accomplish all
the various tasks we had to do. One
of the most challenging was the
obstacle course — especially scaling
the 12-foot wall!
Beyond the obstacle course, the
week was full of “obstacles” that
each team had to overcome. We
cooked food over fires, made sur-
vival tools out of natural materials,
hiked to an abandoned gem mine,
tried our hand at various shooting
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sports, helped find “lost hikers” in
the woods and put into action some
of our survival training, and more!
But one thing in particular really
stood out to me. The speaker at our
evening sessions this year was Bill
Jack with Worldview Academy. His
messages were challenging, inspiring
and encouraging, and much of what
he spoke about centered around
worldview.
Our worldview is the lens through
which we see the world. How we
define right and wrong, how we act
and how we believe. Everything
' Photo courtesy of Donna Owen
This photo shows the team completing the obstacle course. Each team was
responsible for getting all of its teammates over a 12-foot wall by
boosting
them up or pulling them over. The last person had to Jump up and reach the
people’s hands, because everyone else had already gone over.
we say and do stems from our View
of the world. As Jack put it, “What
you pour into a person’s mind will
determine what he thinks, regardless
of his heartfelt faith.”
It is with our hearts that we
believe in Jesus Christ and cultivate
a relationship with Him, but it is our
minds that can be led astray. Jack
reminded me of the importance to be
secure in my worldview and confi-
dent in what I believe.
“We demolish arguments and
every pretension that sets itself up
against the knowledge of God, and
we take captive every thought to
make it obedient to Christ.” — 2
Corinthians 10:5.
We live in a society in which
everything that opposes the truth
of Christ and sets itself up against
the knowledge of God is vying for
our attention, trying to pry us away
from our knowledge of the one who
created us. And so often, we let those
things win out, sometimes without
even realizing it. I felt challenged
to be more intentional to immerse
myself in the truth of God’s Word.
In addition, our society steeps
everyone in secularism. Many people
don’t even have exposure to the
one truth and its source, but instead
are bombarded with so many dif-
ferent versions of “truth.” Instead of
hearing and seeinga clear represen-
tation of the truth, they’re told that
everyone has their own truth, all of
which are right in their own eyes.
This comprises society’s worldview.
In light of this reality, Jack chal-
lenged me, as a Christian living in
this world, to look beyond my own
comfort zone and be bold about
sharing the truth. Not with condemna-
tion, not with pride, but because I
genuinely love people and desire for
them to know the sweet truth of Christ
and the freedom only He can give.
So, I ask you. What do you
believe, and what is your world-
view? How do you know that what
you believe is true? And what if
you’re wrong?
If you can’t answer these ques-
tions with confidence, then I chal-
lenge you to read these next words
carefully.
There is only one truth, and that
is the truth found in the Bible, the
inspired Word of God. That truth
says that man is sinful, that we have
all done bad things or thought bad
thoughts. We’ve told lies or said
things to people that hurt them.
We’ve taken things that aren’t ours.
The Bible is clear that these things
lead to death, and there’s no way for
us to cleanse ourselves from them.
Fortunately, it doesn’t end there.
I know a savior, his name is Jesus
Christ, and he was and is God. Many
years ago, he came to earth in the
form of human flesh and lived a
perfect, sinless life. The Bible says
that the punishment for sin is death
because God is a holy and righteous
God. Atonement for sin has to be
made. But Jesus, because he loved us
with an undeserved love, took our sin
on himself and died a horrible, pain-
filled death on a cross. Crucifixion
was reserved for criminals, but Jesus
had done no wrong. By dying on that
cross, he paid the debt for our sin
once and for all, so that there’s no
longer any debt left for us to pay. And
to prove that he is God, he rose from
the dead and conquered death and
now offers eternal life to you and to
me. All we have to do is trust in Jesus
and accept his gift.
It’s not by anything we can do;
it’s all because of what the Creator
did. And all that we do in this life is
because of the Creator and for
his glory.