"Two weeks ago, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department sent word that its second and third cases of CWD had been discovered on an elk feedground — both detected in cow carcasses at the Dell Creek Feedground in the Bondurant area. Those cases were labeled 'absolutely concerning,' and already more dead elk have been found there carrying the prion disease.

'At Dell [Creek], with the continual animals that are being found dead, it looks like we’re probably further along in the epidemic cycle,' Wyoming State Wildlife Veterinarian Sam Allen told WyoFile. 

To date, she said, no more CWD-infected elk have been discovered at the Pinedale-area Scab Creek Feedground — site of the first confirmed case of the disease on a feedground.

But at the confined Dell Creek feeding area in the Hoback Basin, the diseased carcasses are clearly accumulating. A 5-year-old cow suspected killed by the disease was discovered on Saturday, the state vet said. Its remains had been too consumed to test. Then on Sunday, a bull estimated at 3 years old was found dead. On Tuesday, Allen’s colleagues at the Wyoming Wildlife Health Laboratory confirmed the bull, which was noticeably thin, tested positive for CWD, a disease that U.S. Geological Survey modeling predicts will collapse Wyoming’s fed elk populations..."