For more than a decade, Cody Schuyleman has been hunting with his family. He said he got into it at a young age as a way to bond with his family and also to provide them with meat.
His family went hunting on Saturday and his dad brought their deer to a checking station at Bonners Ferry to help wildlife experts test for the chronic wasting disease.
Idaho Fish and Game is working to make sure a deadly disease affecting deer in Montana doesn’t make its way across state borders. It’s called chronic wasting disease and it affects deer neurologically.
The department says chronic wasting disease is a threat to big game animals and will then hurt hunting opportunities for hunters.
Testing for it isn’t anything new. Every year, Idaho Fish and Game samples 150 to 300 deer to make sure it’s not infecting the animals in the state. They test them by cutting out the lymph nodes in the deer.
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