SANTA FE – The discovery of chronic wasting disease in a mule deer in the Sacramento Mountains in June has prompted the Department of Game and Fish to require deer and elk hunters observe restrictions regarding the handling of animals harvested in some areas of southern New Mexico. Beginning with Read more
The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission (TWRC) recently passed rules that regulate how hunters may bring deer and elk back to Tennessee when hunting other states, says the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA). This new regulation, effective September 1, 2005, will require all successful hunters transporting deer and elk carcasses from Read more
A white tailed deer found near Nipawin, has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease. CWD is a contagious neurological disease affecting deer and elk. It causes a degeneration of the brains of infected animals and is in the same family of prion diseases as BSE. “We don’t want to put Read more
MADISON — Three years after chronic wasting disease was first detected among the state’s white-tailed deer herds, wildlife managers say Wisconsin is a national leader in CWD research and management. That reputation has a chance to expand globally when the second annual International Chronic Wasting Disease Symposium convenes in Madison Read more
Dead deer discovered near Love tests positive for brain-wasting disease A new case of chronic wasting disease (CWD) has emerged in an area previously untouched by it, Saskatchewan Environment has confirmed. A white-tailed deer, found dead for no apparent reason about eight kilometres south of Love, tested positive after it Read more
CWD UPDATE 61 July 6, 2005 The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish reports three additional positives. Two of these are from the research project in the Organ Mountains on White Sands Missile Range, where the previous positives were found. The third one is from the Sacramento Mountains near Read more
The Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife announced today that there was no sign of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in white-tailed deer harvested in the state’s 2004-2005 muzzleloader and firearms deer hunting season. As part of the state’s ongoing effort to detect the introduction of the disease into Delaware, a Read more
U.S. Senator Herb Kohl included $1,750,000 in funding for Wisconsin’s Chronic Wasting Disease eradication efforts as part of the FY2006 Agriculture, Rural Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill. Kohl is the ranking member of the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, which approved the bill this week, and identified CWD eradication as a Read more
SANTA FE – Two mule deer captured in the Organ Mountains as part of an ongoing research project near White Sands Missile Range have tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal neurological disease that attacks the brains of infected deer and elk, the Department of Game and Fish Read more
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) – Boulder’s Open Space and Mountain Parks Department want to study chronic wasting disease in a radically new way, tracking infected deer instead of killing them. They are proposing capturing between 100 and 120 deer, testing them for the disease, tagging them with radio collars, then release Read more