What is the CWD Surveillance Zone? The nine-township area of northwest Kent County surrounding the captive deer facility that produced a deer with chronic wasting disease – Tyrone, Solon, Nelson, Sparta, Algoma, Courtland, Alpine, Plainfield and Cannon — is the surveillance zone. What does that mean? All deer killed by Read more
The 2008 proclamation establishing guidelines for transporting deer, elk and moose carcasses and carcass parts into North Dakota is now in effect as a precaution against the possible spread of chronic wasting disease into the state. To date, CWD has not been diagnosed in North Dakota, but has been found Read more
Department of Natural Resources Director Rebecca A. Humphries today announced plans to amend the regulations concerning handling deer in the nine-township surveillance area in Kent County surrounding the captive deer facility where chronic wasting disease (CWD) was detected. In making the announcement at the monthly meeting of the Natural Resources 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
LANSING – The Michigan departments of Agriculture (MDA) and Natural Resources (DNR) today confirmed the state’s first case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a three-year old white-tailed deer from a privately owned cervid (POC) facility in Kent County. The state has quarantined all POC facilities, prohibiting the movement of Read more
Nearly 600 brain and lymph node tissue samples from white-tailed deer in all three counties of Delaware showed no evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD), the Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife announced today. This brings the total number of Delaware deer tested since 2003 to more than 2,400. During Read more
Wyoming only monitors spread of chronic wasting disease while some call for action. In December 2006, Laramie resident Ken Mills was hunting with two friends near the Lincoln Monument just off Interstate 80 when they spotted a herd of elk huddled together. Mills drew a bead on a cow elk Read more
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is looking to hunters this coming season to help it monitor the state’s deer herd for chronic wasting disease. Read full article (PDF) By Tony Young.
The Conservation Department continues to test deer for the disease. JEFFERSON CITY-Renewed testing for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in 2007 turned up no evidence of the disease, but the Missouri Department of Conservation says it will continue stepped-up monitoring for two more years. CWD is a degenerative neurological malady that Read more
Deer population Disease-Free for Six Consecutive Years ANNAPOLIS — Samples collected from more than 900 deer during the 2007-2008 Maryland deer hunting season showed no signs of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). Recent laboratory test results confirmed no evidence of the disease in brain and lymph nodes collected from 983 deer. Read more