BCSA hosting talk on CWD

SANDPOINT — The Bonner County Sportsmen’s Association is hosting a talk on chronic wasting disease at its meeting Thursday.

Micah Ellstrom, Idaho Department of Fish and Game wildlife manager for the Panhandle region, will be the guest speaker at the BCSA meeting on Thursday, October 3, 2019, 7 p.m., at the Leo Hadley Range, 1114 Lake St., Sandpoint. Ellstrom will speak about chronic wasting disease, the sickness that affects elk, deer and moose.

Chronic wasting disease is a kind of illness known as prion diseases that spread as proteins affecting deer’s brains and spinal cords by damaging normal proteins.

Libby, Mont., has had seven confirmed cases of CWD in deer.