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Wyoming is figuring out how it’ll manage elk feedgrounds into the foreseeable future, and after years of input, a final draft plan has been released.
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The Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Department of Education, and office of Gov. Mark Gordon announced a conservation education initiative aimed at students in upper elementary grades and above in an effort to educate them about the outdoors and introduce them to careers in wildlife. Wyoming Public Radio’s Hugh Cook spoke with the Game and Fish’s Nish Goicolea about the innovative new initiative.
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The department is urging hunters to make this hunting season a safe one by offering some tips on firearm safety as well as how to deal with injuries sustained in the outdoors as well as hunting in bear territory.
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For the first time, Wyoming is outlining specifically how it will manage its 22 state-operated elk feedgrounds going forward. The department released a draft plan, and it is a shift from how the state has historically done things. Wyoming Public Radio’s Caitlin Tan spoke with Mark Gocke, Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s public information specialist.
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Normally there would be hundreds of antelope this time of year grazing sagebrush and spring grass. But instead, there are piles of dead antelope on top of a blanket of snow. Some are still alive – but barely. This unprecedented wildlife loss in some of the country’s largest antelope and mule deer herds is the result of an incredibly harsh winter in southwest Wyoming. It is expected that as many as 50 percent of the animals will die before summer.
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The Wyoming Game & Fish Department recently approved a permit that allows for twice the number of deer than normal to be culled in response to rising chronic wasting disease (CWD) rates in city limits and the Black Hills region. The city has applied for a deer culling permit in previous years to reduce conflicts between residents and deer, though this wasn't related to concerns over CWD.
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Numbers from the annual “Moose Day” help Wyoming’s Game & Fish Department get a more accurate picture of the health of the local moose herd.
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The Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) recently started feeding more elk than usual in Western Wyoming due to the harsh winter.The agency announced they are starting an emergency feeding plan for elk in three areas of western Wyoming – near Star Valley, Cokeville and Kemmerer, with more than 100 elk being fed at each spot.
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Daily limits on the number of commercially guided fishing boats will be discussed during the interimCommercially guided fishing boats will be able to launch into Wyoming rivers as they please this summer, as a House Bill that would have changed that has been postponed.House Bill 84 would have set daily limits on the number of commercially guided fishing boats launching into any section of river in Wyoming.
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In the last 30 years, mule deer populations in Wyoming have declined significantly, so the state is launching a new project to try to better understand why.