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SPOKANE — The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has announced new rules ahead of the fall deer and elk hunting seasons. Effective Sept. 1 in game management units 124, 127 and 130, it is unlawful to hunt for deer, elk and moose using any type of bait placed, exposed, deposited, distributed, scattered or otherwise used for the purpose of attracting deer, elk or moose with the intent to hunt them; or natural or synthetic scents that contain or are derived from cervid urine and glandular extracts. Hunters in the same gam...
SPOKANE — The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has filed multiple emergency rules to help prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease in deer across the state. Washington’s first case of chronic wasting disease was reported in July in an adult female white-tailed deer found dead in the Fairwood area. The fatal disease has been documented in wild or captive cervids (deer, elk, moose and caribou) in 34 other states and four Canadian provinces. “With the spread of CWD across the country and recent detections in adjacen...
