Mountain and foothills residents who feed deer and elk actually may be killing them. State wildlife officials warn that crowding animals together around troughs or feeding stations may be a good way to spread chronic wasting disease, a neurological disorder that eats holes in the brains of elk and deer. Read more
Almost every deer hunter and wildlife agency in North America is coping with the shock waves that jolted Wisconsin one year ago when chronic wasting disease was discovered west of Madison. That’s the consensus of deer biologists and university researchers who gathered in Chattanooga, Tenn., earlier this week during the Read more
Proposed rule would continue ban on baiting and feeding deer MADISON — Three days in March will be very important for Wisconsin hunters, wildlife watchers, farmers and anyone interested in the health of Wisconsin’s white-tailed deer herd. From March 17-19 the Department of Natural Resources will hold hearings at 17 Read more
CWD UPDATE February 19, 2003 The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has announced that they have detected CWD in one free roaming buck mule deer. The animal was harvested on Diamond Mountain, just north of Vernal, Utah, close to the Colorado border. This is one of approximately 400 deer from Read more
Salt Lake City — A buck deer taken by a hunter in northeastern Utah has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), the Division of Wildlife Resources has announced. “The Division of Wildlife Resources has been looking for Chronic Wasting Disease in Utah since 1998,” said Jim Karpowitz, big game Read more
Growing concern over a fatal brain disease in deer reported in some Western states has lawmakers and wildlife officials cooperating to postpone – if not block entirely – its spread into Mississippi. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) creates sponge-like holes in the deer’s brain, causing the animal to grow thin, act Read more
Early tests of high-risk Ohio deer show no traces of chronic wasting disease. Labs soon to perform more extensive tests REYNOLDSBURG – Everything will change for Dr. Sheila D. Grimes if she finds a pink-stained sample of tissue from a deer’s brain on her microscope slide. That will signal the Read more
Chronic Wasting Disease and the Science in support of the Ban on Baiting and Feeding Deer. Timothy R. Van Deelen Ph.D. Wisconsin DNR Research Summary Reliable science provides support for a ban of baiting and feeding of white-tailed deer to reduce disease risks for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). Peer-reviewed research Read more
PIERRE – As planned testing from the fall and winter of 2002-03 draws to a close, two more deer collected in the Black Hills have been returned from a laboratory having tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). One of the deer was a hunter-collected white-tailed buck deer taken in Read more
LAS CRUCES, N.M. – Two more deer have tested positive for chronic wasting disease in New Mexico, Kerry Mower announced today at the New Mexico Wildlife Federation annual meeting in Las Cruces. Mower is the wildlife disease specialist for the Department of Game and Fish. “These two positives were from Read more