FORT COLLINS, COLORADO (Enviro Snowflake Brief)— The first human to test positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), a contagious neurological disease affecting deer, elk and moose, was confirmed today in Fort Collins. Greg Walcher, a retired executive director of Colorado’s Department of Natural Resources, is "patient zero" for CWD transmitted to…

GILLETTE, WYOMING (Enviro Snowflake Brief)— At least 75 pronghorn have died from a cattle carrying bacteria, mycoplasma bovis, in a 35 square mile documented area this year, according to the Wyoming Game & Fish Department (WGFD). Public land ranchers have assured WGFD “it ain’t the cattle’s fault.” Game and…

HELENA, MONTANA (Enviro Snowflake Brief)— On Tuesday, the Montana Secretary of State’s office announced the FWP Officials NOT Grizzlies Paintball Initiative collected over 140,000 valid voter signatures — earns a place on the 2020 ballot. If this highly unusual Initiative passes with voters in November, the measure will require named…

HELENA, MONTANA (Enviro Snowflake Brief)— U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt met with Montana officials and ranchers today to propose President Donald J. Trump’s solution to rid Montana ranchers of the anxiety and death grizzlies are causing Montana’s public land grazing livestock.    The Trump Wall of Yellowstone is an…