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Marcus Huff

An elk blood drop-off outside of Ten Sleep. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is requesting cow elk hunters in the northern Bighorn Mountains to collect blood samples and return radio collars from elk harvested this hunting season. Earlier this year, Game and Fish contracted to have approximately 50 cow elk radio-collared in the northern Bighorn Mountains as part of a larger brucellosis surveillance study that will take place over the next few years. A small number of elk testing seropositive for the brucella bacteria were found during the 2012-2014 hunting seasons on the west side of the Bighorn Mountains.