Lansing — With the threat of chronic wasting disease looming within 100 miles of Michigan’s border with Wisconsin, Gov. Jennifer Granholm isn’t waiting for news that CWD has been found in the state’s white-tailed deer herd before taking action. The newly-elected governor recently signed an executive order creating a CWD Read more
More comprehensive survey yields smaller estimate or original population MADISON — Preliminary analysis of new aerial surveys of the number of white-tailed deer in the area where a fatal brain disorder was discovered in Wisconsin last year indicates that landowners and hunters made significant progress in reducing deer populations in Read more
MADISON — Four more elk herds have been quarantined in the investigation of a case of chronic wasting disease found in an elk on a Manitowoc County farm. The herds contain animals that came from the infected Manitowoc County herd. These animals did not originate in Minnesota, as the infected Read more
DODGEVILLE, Wis. – Thirteen months after chronic wasting disease (CWD) was first discovered in southwest Wisconsin, the first year of shooting and collecting deer ended quietly on Monday, March 31. Collecting deer in the 411 square mile CWD Eradication Zone began in March 2002, after three white-tailed deer shot in Read more
Lawmakers vote to ease rules made to slow wasting disease A legislative committee Thursday directed the state Department of Natural Resources to relax its ban on baiting and feeding deer – or risk a suspension of the controversial rules altogether. The Natural Resources Board approved rules over the summer banning Read more
Game-farm animal is first ill non-deer discovered here Madison – Chronic wasting disease has been found in a farm-raised elk in Manitowoc County, marking the first time in Wisconsin that the ailment has been found in an animal other than a deer, state officials said Tuesday. A 6-year-old female elk, Read more
CWD UPDATE March 25, 2003 Over 700 samples of hunter harvested deer in New York have failed to find CWD in that state. In an effort to keep the disease out of New York, the State Department of Environmental Conservation and the Department of Agriculture and Markets have barred the Read more
AUGUSTA, Maine – Maine wild deer herds show no signs of Chronic Wasting Disease. In a cooperative venture, animal health officials from the Maine Department of Agriculture, and biologists from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, sampled 831 brain tissues from deer harvested through out Maine during the Read more
MADISON, Wis. — (AP) The state Department of Natural Resources has found 16 more deer with chronic wasting disease, and all were killed in the area where the state wants to try to eradicate the disease from the herd, the agency said Friday. That is the largest weekly increase in Read more
WATERBURY, VT – Chronic wasting disease (CWD) was not detected in any of the Vermont deer that were tested recently, according to the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. Tissue samples were collected by Fish and Wildlife staff at meat processing facilities last November and sent to an out-of-state laboratory for Read more