Currently, in northwest Colorado, there is only one management area — south of I-70 around the town of Eagle — where Parks and Wildlife has not detected any chronic wasting disease in deer.

Courtesy Colorado Parks & Wildlife Wildlife officers work together to remove what they described as an "absolute unit" of a black bear from a deck in Durango, Colo. on Sept. 19, 2024.

For decades, chronic wasting disease has plagued Colorado’s deer, elk and moose herds. While Colorado Parks and Wildlife has been working to manage and respond to outbreaks of the fatal neurological ...