To encourage hunters to bring their deer in to Department of Natural Resources (DNR) chronic wasting disease (CWD) sites, the DNR along with several organizations and businesses are offering prizes through a drawing. All hunters, in select permit areas, who turn in a sample will receive a cooperator patch and Read more…
CWD UPDATE November 3, 2003 The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources reports 5 new cases of CWD from their disease eradication zone. Three of these animals were harvested during the archery season and two were shot by agency personnel after reports of sick looking deer. They included a yearling buck, Read more…
LARAMIE, Wyo. – Four deer have tested positive for chronic wasting disease in new areas of southern Wyoming. The deer were killed in three hunt areas in Carbon County, and were among 3,893 animals tested for the fatal brain malady by the State Veterinary Lab in Laramie. The new infected Read more…
Kentucky fish and game officials say there is no evidence of chronic wasting disease in the state’s deer or elk herds. Similar to last year, officials are testing random samples from deer harvested through the archery and firearm seasons. Chronic wasting disease is a form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, a Read more…
Editor’s Note: this is the sixth of eight biweekly columns in which the Department of Natural Resources Secretary will try to answer some of the many questions and concerns related to Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Wisconsin. This week, I’m turning my pen over to Rod Nilsestuen, Secretary of Agriculture, Read more…
Release No. 0372.03 WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2003–The United States Department of Agriculture today issued a proposed rule to amend its bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) regulations to establish a new category of regions that recognizes those that present a minimal risk of introducing BSE into the United States via the importation Read more…
SANTA FE, N.M. – The director of the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish modified a complete ban against importing elk and other cervids into the state, the agency announced Friday. Dr. Bruce Thompson made the modification of the importation ban following a review of the status of chronic Read more…
MADISON – With the reporting of five additional chronic wasting disease (CWD) positive wild deer from the disease eradication zone this week, Whitetails Unlimited (WTU) will issue the first CWD Reward Program checks. The Whitetails Unlimited’s and Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) joint CWD Reward Program awards $400 for each Read more…
FITCHBURG, Wis. – Deer registration and sample collection stations are now set in the Department of Natural Resources’ South Central Region for the gun deer seasons beginning Oct. 30 in the chronic wasting disease (CWD) Intensive Harvest (IHZ) and Herd Reduction Zones (HRZ). The gun deer season in the IHZ Read more…
North Dakota Game and Fish Department officials are asking deer hunters to assist in monitoring for the potential occurrence of chronic wasting disease. Hunters can help by stopping at collection sites throughout the season and providing samples from their deer, according to Jacquie Ermer, department wildlife disease biologist. Game and Read more…