Scientists are exploring the origins of chronic wasting disease before it becomes truly catastrophic.
[What a literal no-brainer.]
This story was published in collaboration with the Mountain West News Bureau, a collaboration between Wyoming Public Media, Boise State Public Radio in Idaho, KUER in Salt Lake City and KRCC and KUNC in Colorado.
Heather Swanson and Ryan Prioreschi stand in knee-high golden grass on a slope outside Boulder, Colorado, where the Rocky Mountains start slumping into the plains, at the epicenter of a now-international animal epidemic. The two ecologists, who monitor wildlife for the city, have their binoculars out, and they’re staring right at the problem.
A fawn runs circles around the rest of the herd, with the boing of a muscular slinky toy.
“He’s wired,” says Swanson, laughing. “He’s doing laps.”
A few other mule…
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