The Colorado Division of Wildlife knowingly used a herd of captive elk exposed to chronic wasting disease in a grazing study on the Western Slope in January 1990, possibly introducing the disease to the elk-rich area. “It was a bad call,” said Jeff Ver Steeg, the division’s top game manager. Read more
CASPER – Four mule deer, harvested from areas where chronic wasting disease had previously not been found, recently tested positive for the disease. Three of the mule deer were harvested in the extreme southeast corner of Hunt Area 34 just northwest of Casper. “Finding CWD in Hunt Area 34 was Read more
PIERRE – South Dakota’s Department of Game, Fish and Parks (GFP) has collected 1900 elk and deer tissue samples this fall and winter in their ongoing testing for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). All samples are from the Black Hills and southwestern part of the state, except for 137 white-tailed deer Read more
NISKU, Alta.- Some deer producers are no longer submitting heads of dead animals for inspection for chronic wasting disease since the Canadian Food Inspection Agency refined its compensation program, says a farmer. “A lot of people are no longer willing to send in heads because of it,” said Jim Mercier Read more
MONONA , Wis. – Department of Natural Resources wildlife researchers are planning to conduct aerial deer counts in the chronic wasting disease (CWD) Eradication and Management Zones as soon as the weather cooperates. “We need five or six inches of snow on the ground to cover logs and stumps so Read more
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has banned four former Saskatchewan elk farmers from growing grain or raising livestock because their land may harbour chronic wasting disease organisms. They’re among 40 farms in Saskatchewan where elk tested positive for the fatal brain-wasting disease after a diseased elk was imported from South Read more
LINCOLN, Neb. – Officials with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission reported that two deer harvested in the Panhandle during the 2002 hunting season have tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), but they expressed optimism at the low rate of infection. Bruce Morrison, a Commission biologist charged with monitoring Read more
Asked to help with the testing for chronic wasting disease, South Dakota big-game hunters have responded in unprecedented fashion, submitting 1,869 deer and elk heads to wildlife officials this fall and winter. Toss in 31 road kills from Rapid City, and that’s 1,900 specimens – more than the total sample Read more
JACKSBORO, Tenn. – While the panic over chronic wasting disease appears to be dying down, the testing to find out how widespread the disease is has just begun. Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has collected nearly 1,400 brain tissue samples from hunter-killed deer and sent them to the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Read more
Results from 5 wild whitetails could prompt new strategy by state. For the first time, chronic wasting disease has been found in wild deer killed outside the 411-square-mile eradication zone southwest of Madison, suggesting that the state may have to broaden its strategy against the disease. The Department of Natural Read more