Sampling the work day of a CWD technician
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks technician Yvette Bonney collects a sample for Chronic Waste Disease testing from an elk. (Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks photo)
HELENA – If you ask Yvette Bonney to describe the grossest thing she’s seen during her job, she talks about the time she removed an abscessed lymph node from the neck of a mule deer, which Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks staff occasionally sees in deer.
“All this green stuff oozed out,” Bonney says.
She’ll also tell you about other times when she examined tick-infested heads, deer with injuries or heads that were no longer fresh but still sampleable.
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