For the fourth year in a row chronic wasting disease was not discovered in the state’s wild deer herd. “It’s certainly good news for deer and deer hunters,” said Mike Shaw, wildlife research supervisor for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. Personnel took brain samples from 1,000 deer and elk Read more
MADISON — Half of a Manitowoc County elk herd exposed to chronic wasting disease was killed for testing Tuesday, May 6, agriculture officials announced. About 90 elk from Eugene Sperber’s 180-head herd were put down beginning at about 8 a.m. The remainder of the herd will be destroyed when storage Read more
Results of nearly 1,000 deer and elk tested for chronic wasting disease last winter indicate the deadly disease has not infected Montana’s wild, free-ranging herds, state wildlife officials announced today. The tissue samples from a total of 997 deer and elk harvested by hunters in 2002, or collected by FWP, Read more
State wraps up intensive testing of 41,000 wild whitetails in Wisconsin Wrapping up the most extensive testing of deer in U.S. history, Wisconsin officials concluded Friday that chronic wasting disease does not appear to have spread beyond a region west of Madison. Results from more than 41,000 white-tailed deer have Read more
Results from tests completed at the National Veterinary Services Lab in Ames confirm none of the Iowa whitetail deer tested for chronic wasting disease (CWD) over the past year showed any signs of the disease. State wildlife officials began testing road-killed deer last spring, however most of the 3,278 samples Read more
MADISON, Wis. – Feeding of deer will be legal from May 1, 2003 until a new permanent rule, enacted by the Natural Resources Board last week banning the practices of baiting and feeding deer, is effective. That rule should go into effect about September 1, 2003. An emergency rule, banning Read more
The Colorado Agriculture Commission on Tuesday reluctantly approved strict new regulations on the elk-ranching industry designed to prevent another outbreak of chronic wasting disease. Commission members said they agreed with most of the new regulations that were spelled out in a memorandum of agreement between the state wildlife and agriculture Read more
Frankfort, KY, April 30, 2003 – Officials with the Kentucky Departments of Fish and Wildlife Resources (KDFWR) and Agriculture (KDA) announce the removal of a six-month ban on in-state movement of live cervids (deer and elk) within Kentucky, effective May 13, 2003. Importing cervids into Kentucky from other states is Read more
Staving off the pressures of politicians and citizens, the state Natural Resources Board voted last week in the interest of animal health. But in doing so, the board gave the Department of Natural Resources more work and a tougher challenge as it tries to stop the spread of chronic wasting Read more
April 25, 2003 – Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) Director Dan Wyant today extended the state’s existing ban on all imports of cervidae (deer and elk) as a continued precaution against Chronic Wasting Disease. The Department oversees the licensing, registration and inspection of the state’s privately owned, or farmed, deer Read more