SHERIDAN – A mule deer buck harvested from deer hunt area 23, east of Sheridan near Ucross, tested positive for chronic wasting disease, a brain disease known to affect some moose deer and elk. “Although CWD has been found in southeastern Wyoming for a number of years, this is the Read more
MADISON – There will be no food pantry donation program in the chronic wasting disease (CWD) Zones this hunting season due to cutbacks in funding. Wisconsin’s federal CWD funding has been reduced by $656,000 and $1,072,100 in state funding is no longer available due to actions by the legislature Joint Read more
Archery deer hunters in select counties in northern Illinois are encouraged to allow samples to be taken for chronic wasting disease (CWD) sampling from adult deer they harvest through Nov. 15. The sampling is a very important part of Illinois’ effort to monitor and combat CWD in wild deer. IDNR Read more
SALEM, Ore.—Successful hunters, please have your harvested deer or elk checked for Chronic Wasting Disease and follow regulations that prohibit the import of any deer, elk or moose parts containing central nervous system tissue into Oregon from states or Canadian provinces with CWD. CWD is an untreatable neurological disease that Read more
With big game seasons opening in many Western states, hunters traveling abroad are reminded not to import into South Carolina certain carcass parts from deer and elk harvested in states with chronic wasting disease. To protect the state’s extremely valuable white-tailed deer resource, the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Read more
CWD Update 88 August 31, 2007 State and Provincial Updates Illinois: Paul Shelton, Illinois Department of Natural Resources provides the following: During July, IDNR identified a CWD-positive deer in LaSalle County after testing an animal showing classic signs of the illness. This was the first instance of the disease in Read more
LAS CRUCES – New Mexico recorded its 19th case of chronic wasting disease in deer in a sick animal found in the Bishop’s Cap area of the Organ Mountains . Officer Richard McDonald investigated a report of an emaciated deer July 12. The animal was unaware of human presence, chronically Read more
After extensive testing, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has not found any evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the state’s white-tailed deer population. The FWC tested 636 free-ranging deer during the past year and more than 3,000 deer during the past five years, with no CWD-positive Read more
MADISON – The most current scientific knowledge about chronic wasting disease (CWD) — from human health risk and risks to other species, to the role of environmental contamination — will be presented at a meeting this month of an advisory group charged with minimizing the impact of the disease in Read more
Doe afflicted in Seneca is confirmed case. A fatal deer disease discovered in northern Illinois in 2002 has spread to LaSalle County. The county’s first confirmed case of chronic wasting disease was a mature doe found late last month on private property in Seneca near the Illinois River. “It was Read more