WDFW reports a new confirmation of chronic wasting disease in a buck harvested in the same area where the always-fatal deer family disease was confirmed in three whitetails last year.
This latest deer was taken in Game Management Unit 124, Mount Spokane, by a hunter who took it in for sampling, and the results came back late last week, according to an agency spokeswoman.
It’s the sixth confirmed case of CWD in a Washington deer and first of 2025.
Additionally, initial testing on a buck taken by a tribal hunter on the Spokane Indian Reservation off Drum Road north of Wellpinit in October showed it too was positive for CWD, but more testing was being performed at a Montana lab to shore up the diagnosis…