Idaho Fish and Game first detected Chronic Wasting Disease next to Slate Creek north of Riggins in 2021. CWD is a big concern for Idaho Fish and Game, but hunters can do their part to help.

"It is a misfit protein that causes problems in the central nervous system of deer, elk, moose, and caribou," said Idaho Fish and Game biologist Stacey Dauwalter. "The animals can't enact an immune response to this protein because their body recognizes it as being part of itself.”

See Idaho Fish and Game's state-of-the-art wildlife forensics lab here — What hunters need to know about chronic wasting disease ahead of the rifle season

There is no cure for CWD, and once it makes its way onto the landscape, it can't be removed, so Idaho Fish and Game attempts to manage the disease in an effort to sto

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