The second year of testing wild deer turned up no cases of the disease. JEFFERSON CITY–For the second year in a row, laboratory tests found no Missouri deer with chronic wasting disease (CWD). The Missouri Department of Conservation says it plans to continue testing deer taken in this year’s hunting Read more
HORICON – Dodge County residents are reminded that a ban on baiting and feeding deer in the entire county went into effect last month. Department of Natural Resources secretary Scott Hassett signed an emergency order on June 15 which continues the ban on placing feed for deer in those areas Read more
OLYMPIA – As a further precaution aimed at keeping chronic wasting disease (CWD) out of Washington, hunters may soon be prohibited from bringing home unprocessed carcasses of deer and elk from states and Canadian provinces where the disease is present in wild populations. The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission is Read more
Human Dimensions of Wildlife Volume 9 (2004) Quarterly ISSN Print 1087-1209 ISSN Online 1533-158X Human Dimensions of Wildlife is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of social considerations in fisheries and wildlife management. The journal provides an open forum for exchange of human dimensions information. This special issue Read more
MADISON — No more cases of chronic wasting disease have been found in a Racine County whitetail deer herd that was killed and tested after one of the deer turned up positive in a routine test last month. The remaining 15 deer owned by Colin Breber, of Raymond, were killed Read more
U.S. Reps. Ron Kind, Mark Green and Paul Ryan, all members of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus Chronic Wasting Disease Taskforce, sent a letter on Monday to House Agriculture appropriators requesting support for President Bush’s Fiscal Year 2005 budget request of $20.1 million for the surveillance, management, research, and eradication of Read more
MADISON — Baiting and feeding deer will be banned in 26 southern Wisconsin counties effective noon June 17, under a secretary’s order signed by Department of Natural Resources Secretary Scott Hassett. Previously, 24 counties had been included in the ban. The recent discovery of deer that tested positive for chronic Read more
Lansing — Despite an already understaffed Law Enforcement Division, the Michigan DNR says it plans to begin an audit of the state’s domestic deer and elk farm operations within the next couple weeks. The effort is in compliance with Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s executive order of April 15, which transferred authority Read more
Prion proteins can be found in the muscles of infected sheep, reports a new study in the June issue of Nature Medicine. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans might result from consumption of animal products contaminated with prions. Olivier Andréoletti and his colleagues found that the prion protein PrPSc accumulates in Read more
Last fall, brain and lymph node tissue samples from hunter harvested white-tailed deer in Delaware were submitted to the University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine’s New Bolton Center for Chronic Wasting Disease testing. Three hundred random samples were collected in Delaware, 100 from each county. Final test results just Read more