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Scientists are gaining ground in the race to understand what is causing the spread of chronic wasting disease, or CWD, in deer and elk. Stuart Lichtenberg - research scientist at the University of Minnesota and co-author of a new University of Wisconsin at Madison-led report - said the team wanted to find out if deer ticks that were found on white tail deer killed by hunters carried prions, the misfolded proteins that spread the disease. "We were actually able to detect what we called 'transmission relevant doses' of CWD prions," said Lichtenberg. " ...

The public can weigh in on the possibility of reintroducing sea otters to stretches of the California and Oregon coasts at a series of open houses this week and next, hosted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Historically, a quarter million sea otters lived along the Pacific Rim, but fur traders hunted them to near extinction. ...

Both sides of a legal dispute over grizzly bear and cattle conflicts in the Upper Green River drainage say an apparent appeals court win for wildlife advocates lacks teeth and

Nine conservation groups are calling on wildlife agencies in Wyoming and Idaho to require black bear hunters to take a bear identification course before getting a hunting license. Kristin Combs, executive director of the group Wyoming Wildlife Advocates, said at least 14 Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bears were killed between 2010 and 2022 because of mistaken identity, and added the actual number is likely much higher. "There are also 113 cases of mortalities still under investigation," Combs pointed out. " ...

Judges’ reversal of a grazing allotment decision that allows up to 72 grizzly deaths over a decade won’t impact contested range activity, plaintiffs and defendants say.