The 2023 Wyoming General legislative session ran for eight weeks this year, from early January until early March. With twenty-seven new House of Representatives and eight new State Senators, the early session ran slower than previous sessions due to a lot of education and discussion needed for the officials in new seats. Hunters and anglers …
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Hank Edwards jokes that he’s been working in wildlife diseases, including chronic wasting disease, “since Jesus was in 4th grade.” The 26-year veteran of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department is the Laboratory Supervisor for the agency and works out of his lab in Laramie. “The lab is about the size of this room,” he …
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Bears are known to carry the disease trichinosis, like pork, and the competition brought light to how best to address its presence in your harvest. In humans, Trichinosis causes stomach-flu-like symptoms, achy muscles, and fatigue, though it’s generally not serious. To prevent getting it, killing trichinosis in the meat is as simple as making sure …
