CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has finished its fourth year of comprehensive Chronic Wasting Disease surveillance and added two deer hunt areas and two elk hunt areas to its list of areas where CWD has been detected. Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a fatal neurological disease that Read more
WINGVILLE, Wis. – A chronic wasting disease (CWD) positive deer was identified recently in Grant County, the Department of Natural Resources announced today. The two-year old buck was shot by a hunter in the northeast Grant County Town of Wingville. The township is located in deer management unit 73E CWD, Read more
Special season Jan. 12-14 helps control deer density in five northern Illinois counties SPRINGFIELD, IL – The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) is expanding the Special chronic wasting disease (CWD) Antlerless-only Deer Season to allow hunting in all of DeKalb County when the special season is conducted in five Read more
Alberta has recorded two more cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in wild deer after hunters recently turned in the heads for testing. This brings the total to 15 cases of CWD confirmed in wild deer in Alberta since the first case in September 2005. The two new cases involve Read more
Department plans to collect samples from 3,200 hunter-harvested deer The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks is working with dozens of individuals and organizations around the state to collect tissue samples from hunter-harvested deer during the 2006 hunting seasons. The department’s goal is to analyze tissue from 3,200 deer to Read more
Audit Highlights (PDF) Full 98-Page Audit Report (PDF) DNR Response to Legislative Audit of CWD Program (PDF) DNR Secretary memo to Natural Resources Board Management of Chronic Wasting Disease October 25, 2006 (PDF)
CWD Update 82 November 20, 2006 State Updates New York: John Major, New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), provides the following: For 2006, Chronic Wasting Disease regulations in New York have been updated in response to the finding of the disease in a moose in Colorado and deer in Read more
CASPER – A white-tailed deer harvested in hunt area 4 east of Sundance has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The disease had not previously been detected in that hunt area. The buck deer was harvested in the Moskee area on Nov. 4. “We’re concerned that CWD continues to spread Read more
HARRISBURG – While there continues to be no known cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the Commonwealth, the Pennsylvania Game Commission, joined by veterinarians and laboratory technicians from the Pennsylvania and U.S. departments of Agriculture, is stepping up its efforts next week to verify that fact. “Currently, there are Read more
CWD UPDATE 81 November 14, 2006 USDA-APHIS-Veterinary Services has published a request for comments on the three petitions received from the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, the U. S. Animal Health Association, and the National Assembly of State Animal Health Officials protesting portions of their rule on the interstate Read more