JACKSON – The Wyoming Game and Fish Department will cover the cost for hunters to dispose of their big game carcasses at the Teton County trash transfer station this hunting season. Hunters who wish to dispose of big game carcasses at the trash transfer station must provide a valid hunting license or carcass coupon to the transfer station attendant. 

"With the high cost associated with properly disposing of harvested big game carcasses in Teton County, this program incentivizes hunters to comply with Department Regulations,” said Ben Wise, Jackson disease biologist. 

State regulations regarding the transport and disposal of big game carcasses in Wyoming are in place to help limit the spread of chronic wasting disease, or CWD. Please read and adhere to all regulations for in-state and out-of-state carcass transport.

“Proper carcass disposal not only helps limit the spread of CWD in the region, but it also helps reduce potential large carnivore conflicts associated with illegal carcass dumping," said Wise. 

Hunters who harvest a big game animal are required to take all edible portions including the front quarters as far down as the knees, the hind quarters as far down as the hocks, the backstraps and the tenderloins. 

Hunters should also review the Game and Fish Transporting and Disposing Deer and Elk Resource Guide to learn how to prevent the transmission of CWD across the landscape during transport. If the whole animal is removed from the field for processing, hunters are required to leave the head and all portions of the spinal column at the site of the kill or to dispose of these parts in any approved landfill or approved incinerator in Wyoming. Skulls, skull plates and antlers can only be transported within Wyoming once they have been cleaned of all meat and brain tissue. 

Information on CWD testing, accessing results, and more is available on our website, under the Game and Fish Wildlife and Disease webpage. 

Those with questions may call the Jackson Game and Fish regional office at 307-733-2321.