The Department has established a Mandatory Sampling Area for Chronic Wasting Disease in southwestern Frederick County. This area is west of Route 600, north of Paddy’s Cove Lane and Vance’s Cove Lane, and south of Fall Run Lane and Heishman Lane (see map). Mandatory sampling of hunter-harvested deer will take Read more…
Richmond, VA — Effective September 1, it will be illegal to feed deer statewide in Virginia. The prohibition runs through the first Saturday in January (January 3, 2009). The regulation designating the prohibition went into effect in 2006. This regulation does NOT restrict the planting of crops such as corn Read more…
Richmond, VA — After extensive testing of deer from every county in the Commonwealth, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) reports that there is no evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Virginia’s white-tailed deer population. During the 2007-2008 hunting season, 1,140 samples were collected from free-ranging Read more…
Richmond, VA — After extensive testing, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) has not found any evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Virginia’s white-tailed deer population. In 2006, over 800 samples were collected from white-tailed deer throughout the state. Approximately 500 samples were collected from the Read more…
The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) has begun its active surveillance for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). The Department has been sampling wild and captive deer for CWD since 2002. However, in 2005, the discovery of CWD in deer from Hampshire County, West Virginia, approximately 10 miles from Read more…
The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) has begun its active surveillance for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). The Department has been sampling wild and captive deer for CWD since 2002. However, in 2005, the discovery of CWD in deer from Hampshire County, West Virginia, approximately 10 miles from Read more…
Richmond, VA — Effective September 1, a regulation making it illegal to feed deer will go into effect statewide. The prohibition runs through the first Saturday in January. This regulation does NOT restrict the planting of crops such as corn and soybeans, wildlife food plots, and backyard or schoolyard habitats. Read more…
RICHMOND, Va., – The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) has good news concerning the results of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) testing in a surveillance area that included parts of western and northern Shenandoah, Frederick, Loudoun and Clark counties. More than 550 samples from white-tailed deer collected this Read more…
Winchester, VA — The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries is requesting continued assistance from deer hunters with the Department’s chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance efforts. The Department is making progress on collecting 550 deer heads for CWD testing from a 1,190 square mile area, but additional samples are Read more…
Winchester, VA — The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries is requesting assistance from deer hunters with the Department’s chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance efforts. The Department will be collecting about 550 deer heads for CWD testing from a 1,190 square mile area including most of western Shenandoah County, Read more…
Clarke, Culpeper, Fauquier, Frederick, Loudoun, Shenandoah.