A Jackson man was recently convicted of charges relating to the illegal shooting and abandoning of a trophy mule deer buck on private land north of Jackson last fall.
Travis Gros pleaded guilty to illegally shooting a mule deer on private land without permission, failure to tag big game and wanton waste of the animal...
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 Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s annual surveys of pronghorn antelope and mule deer herds this fall and winter show higher than average numbers of fawns. This is significant because population growth is driven by the number of fawns that are born and survive to their first birthday. Gam...
South Riverton Game Warden Brad Gibb is seeking information about an adult buck mule deer illegally shot in the town of Jeffrey City. This crime occurred on Wednesday, October 22.
Gibb says that according to an account
“The eyewitness heard a rifle shot at approximately 6:45 pm and then witnessed a four point buck fall to the ground...
Testing by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department has found chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal neurological disease of deer, elk and moose, in a deer from Fremont County in deer hunt area 160. Staff at the Game and Fish’s wildlife disease laboratory in Laramie confirmed a yearling mule deer buck as CWD positive...