MADISON – The public will have an opportunity to comment on proposed changes to the boundaries of the western and eastern Chronic Wasting Disease – Disease Eradication Zones and other changes to hunting season structure, and learn about herd status at five combined public hearing-informational open houses scheduled for March Read more
FITCHBURG – A Richland Center man who owns property in one of the chronic wasting disease (CWD) “sparks” areas is slated to receive the third of four Sparks Incentive Program cash payments. Ward McDonald will get a $2000 check for a deer that was shot on his Town of Orion Read more
LAKE GENEVA – A deer shot by a hunter in Walworth County has tested positive for chronic wasting disease, the Department of Natural Resources reported. The deer was killed within the CWD Herd Reduction Zone, just outside the eastern Disease Eradication Zone (DEZ) boundary, The buck, about 18 months old, Read more
ARGYLE – Two chronic wasting disease (CWD) positive deer were identified recently in the northeast corner of Lafayette County just outside the western CWD Disease Eradication Zone (DEZ) boundary, the Department of Natural Resources announced today. One deer, a three-year old buck was shot by a hunter in Argyle Township Read more
CWD UPDATE February 11, 2005 CORRECTION: In the last update, I mentioned a CWD positive mule deer reported by the Colorado Division of Wildlife near Fort Collins. My mistake, it should have been Fort Carson, which is located just south of Colorado Springs. This is the furthest south along the Read more
No positives were found in tests for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) of nearly 13,000 lymph node samples taken from wild deer harvested during the 2004 deer season, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced today. CWD testing of hunter-harvested deer is complete. Since 2001, the DNR has tested nearly Read more
DEERFIELD, Wis. – Chronic wasting disease surveillance efforts have detected a CWD-positive wild white-tailed deer in eastern Dane County, Department of Natural Resources officials report. The DNR increased surveillance in southeast Wisconsin this deer hunting season to get a better sense of the geographic distribution and prevalence of CWD in Read more
PIERRE, S.D. – Game, Fish and Parks officials say South Dakota now has four animals that have tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease. Results include three deer and, most recently, one elk. All positive tests are from free ranging animals that were tested from July 1, 2004 to Jan. 27, Read more
CWD UPDATE February 1, 2005 The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission reports that a total of 29 additional positives were detected during the 2004 hunting seasons. Of these, 26 occurred in the endemic area in the Nebraska panhandle. New locations included Hall, Cherry, and Arthur Counties. Hall County represents a Read more
Case is the furthest south CWD has been found in Colorado An adult mule deer buck killed by a hunter at Fort Carson south of Colorado Springs has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The hunter harvested the deer on Dec. 24, 2004, and submitted a sample to the Colorado Read more