Test results from 103 wild deer killed so far near an Aitkin County farm show no evidence of chronic wasting disease, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said Tuesday. At least eight more deer from that 9-square-mile area remain to be tested for the incurable ailment that strikes deer and Read more
DES MOINES – Iowa DNR wildlife biologists will be collecting tissue samples from deer harvested during the first two days of the first shotgun season looking for the presence of chronic wasting disease. The DNR has check stations in the northeast Iowa counties of Allamakee, Clayton, Dubuque and Jackson. Hunter Read more
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources officials estimate they collected about 4,700 samples for Chronic Wasting Disease tests during the firearms deer season, which opened Nov. 9. Last week, after most firearms seasons ended in northern Minnesota, the DNR had collected about 4,000 samples. An additional 1,000 samples were to be Read more
So far this hunting season, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has collected 200 deer tissue specimens to be tested for chronic wasting disease. The disease is fatal to deer but has not turned up in Florida, and authorities are taking steps to make sure it doesn’t. The Read more
So far, 15 deer and four elk submitted at the sample removal site at the Craig Warehouse have tested positive for chronic wasting disease this season, said Vicki Weber, administrative assistant at the site. Of that total, three elk and 11 deer were shot in Moffat County, she said. This Read more
State wildlife officials collected more than 22,000 deer head samples for its Chronic Wasting Disease deer herd health assessment over opening weekend of the Gun Deer Season. Added to samples taken during summer shooting periods and Zone T season, DNR now has about 32,000 samples in hand. According to veterinarian Read more
WALDPORT — The most explosive issue in the history of North American deer and elk management could erupt from the end of a grapefruit knife that Doug Cottam bought at Fred Meyer. Hands safely squeezed into latex gloves, he kneels at a rural roadside in a light mist and works Read more
Wildlife officials are expanding their surveillance for chronic wasting disease in Oklahoma’s white- tailed deer herd as the brain-destroying illness continues to spread in other states. So far the incurable disease has not been found in Oklahoma’s wild deer. It was discovered in an Oklahoma County captive elk herd destroyed Read more
Barneveld – Wisconsin officials on Sunday continued to implore reluctant hunters to have their deer tested for chronic wasting disease. On the second day of the nine-day gun season, Department of Natural Resources officials said that hunters in many parts of Wisconsin were not donating the heads of deer to Read more
HOUMA — State wildlife agents are sampling the state’s deer population for chronic wasting disease, a fatal illness about which little is known, although it apparently is spreading across the continent. Thousands of hunters flock to the forests each fall and winter to hunt deer, whose populations are flourishing in Read more