Minnesota

Testing results for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) are now complete on nearly 10,000 lymph node samples taken from wild deer harvested during the 2003 deer season. No CWD was found, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced today. “Minnesota has one of the more aggressive CWD sampling programs in Read more…

No positives were found in tests of 1,160 lymph node samples taken from wild deer harvested during the 2003 firearms season, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced today. Today’s results are the first from 10,000 samples that were taken from wild deer harvested by hunters. Samples were collected Read more…

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…

The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is planning extensive CWD testing during the upcoming firearms deer season. Section of Wildlife staff hope to collect upwards of 13,000 samples this year. Sampling will occur at over 130 big game registration stations in 60 permit areas located in the northwest, northeast, east-central Read more…

As part of previously announced plans to test more than 13,000 wild deer for chronic wasting disease (CWD) during this fall’s hunting seasons, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will be collecting samples from archery deer hunters in designated surveillance areas. While the majority of effort will take place Read more…

This fall, big game hunters will need to take additional steps prior to bringing deer, elk, moose or caribou carcasses into Minnesota from other states or provinces, according to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The new law takes effect August 1 and bans the importation of whole cervid carcasses Read more…

No positives have been found in more than 5,000 Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) tests run on brain-stem samples collected from Minnesota’s wild deer during the fall of 2002, the Department of Natural Resources announced today. The University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory has completed testing on 4,462 samples collected at Read more…

A Stearns County farm has been quarantined because an elk that tested positive for chronic wasting disease in January was kept there nearly three years ago. The Minnesota Board of Animal Health said this week that the 3-year-old female elk was at the farm owned by Roger Nietfeld near Melrose, Read more…

The Minnesota Board of Animal Health would regulate all captive elk and deer in the state under a legislative proposal to help stop the spread of chronic wasting disease. The proposal by a broad-based task force would have the board operate a mandatory registration and chronic wasting disease surveillance program. Read more…

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Board of Animal Health today announced that an elk from a Stearns County farmed elk herd has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). The animal was one of 21 elk on a farm near Sauk Center that were being quarantined and tested due Read more…