BILLINGS – Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is offering a free instructional workshop for hunters to learn how to collect chronic wasting disease (CWD) samples from harvested deer, elk and moose. The workshop will be Tuesday, Oct. 29, at the Billings FWP office (2300 Lake Elmo Dr.) from 5-7 p.m. FWP will also offer CWD sampling demonstrations for hunters every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the general season from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Billings FWP office.
Participants at the workshop and demonstrations should bring a deer, elk, or moose carcass or head with neck meat from a recent harvest if they have one. Participants also need to bring their own sharp knife to collect their own samples. Frozen heads are difficult to sample and need to be thawed prior to sampling. At the workshop and weekly demonstrations, CWD technicians will show hunters how to collect their own samples from harvested deer, elk and moose…