Wyoming Game and Fish

Wyoming Game and Fish Department game wardens Dave Hays and Andy Roosa responded to a call on March 8th about seven dead elk, east of Steamboat Mountain, in the Great Divide Basin of the Red Desert. After arriving at the scene, the game wardens inspected the elk carcasses, which appear to have died sometime between November and January...

The next meeting of the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission is March 22-23, 2016 in Rawlins, Wyoming at the Hampton Inn, 406 Airport Road. The Commission will begin discussions regarding approval of the fiscal year 2017 budget, with final approval at the April 2016 meeting...

Some of the most sought after hunting licenses issued by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department have an application deadline of today February 29th, 2016. Current counts by the Wyoming Game and Fish point to healthy populations of all of these animals in the Northwest corner of the state as well as statewide...

If you have any plans to be on the river in the near future, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department cautions you to be aware of sizeable increases in water flows in the North Platte River for 10 days beginning March 7 as part of a flushing flow project...

Good news for hunters the numbers of mountain goats are increasing year after year. Not only are the goats increasing in number but also in range. If the heard of goats continue to grow and thrive, hunters will have a greater chance of getting a license.

Andrew Kneeland, age 17, of Rock Springs, Wyo., is the winning artist of the 2015-2016 Federal Junior Duck Stamp contest. His painting of a pair of wood ducks was chosen by a panel of judges as the design for the new stamp. Kneeland’s painting, along with other winners from the Wyoming State Junior Duck Stamp Contest, are on display at the Wyoming Game and Fish Department Cheyenne Headquarters unt

Two recent encounters that the Wyoming Game and Fish has had included wildlife and the effects of trash left behind. According to Casper Wildlife Biologist Heather O’Brien, the office had received a series of phone calls from Casper residents reporting a buck mule deer with an injury to its back foot...

The timely precipitation this year provided a continued respite from the drought conditions of earlier this decade. Though this wet weather may only be a short-term trend Wyoming Game and Fish Department biologists have already noticed positive impacts for wildlife...

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department urges hunters and other backcountry users to be cautious when recreating in bear country, and to carry and know how to use bear spray.

With the dry conditions and local county fire restrictions, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department is banning open fires on all Game and Fish Commission-owned and administered lands in a number of regions across Wyoming. Habitat and Access Coordinator Seth Roseberry said as long as the dry conditions continue across Wyoming, the potential for human-caused fires, including catastrophic fires threaten