Providing supplemental food for deer during the winter seems to make sense until you learn more about the subject. Wildlife biologists throughout North America, including those at the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, advise strongly against feeding deer. New York and Wisconsin are two states that recently made it illegal Read more
MADISON — Feeding and baiting free-ranging whitetail deer threatens the health of domestic livestock and wildlife, and should be banned permanently in Wisconsin, say officials of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. The Department issued a policy statement today in support of the Department of Natural Resources’ Read more
CWD UPDATE February 12, 2003 The New Mexico Game and Fish Department reports three additional positive mule deer from the White Sands Missile Range base housing herd. These positives are from the same area as their previous single positive. In December, the agency collected tonsil biopsies from several animals and Read more
The Department of Environmental Conservation’s latest crackdown on chronic wasting disease (CWD) will affect all New York hunters who leave the state in pursuit of venison. Under a proposed regulation being floated at an ongoing series of public meetings on the CWD threat, hunters who kill deer or elk in Read more
MADISON – The public will have an opportunity to comment on a package of chronic wasting disease (CWD) rules and an accompanying environmental impact statement (EIS) at a series of hearings scheduled for March 17-19 across the state. Copies of the rules and the EIS are available for review at Read more
MADISON — A Dane County deer farm was released from quarantine Feb. 7 after authorities determined it had no connection with chronic wasting disease, acting state veterinarian Dr. Robert Ehlenfeldt announced. The farm is owned by Mark and Doug Deegan, Brooklyn. The deer herd was quarantined in October 2002 as Read more
Arena – Deer No. 1105 lay on top of a blanket as an IV bag slowly dripped saline solution into the slumbering animal. It was cold, about 5 degrees, and a team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison was working to finish as quickly as it could before the deer awoke. Read more
A Stearns County farm has been quarantined because an elk that tested positive for chronic wasting disease in January was kept there nearly three years ago. The Minnesota Board of Animal Health said this week that the 3-year-old female elk was at the farm owned by Roger Nietfeld near Melrose, Read more
Three more New Mexico mule deer have tested positive for deadly chronic wasting disease. State Game and Fish Department officials said today that all three infected deer were from the White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico, the site where the only other state deer to test positive for Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Department of Natural Resources is undertaking additional testing of white-tailed deer in Boone, McHenry and Winnebago counties for chronic wasting disease, where seven confirmed cases of CWD have occurred. IDNR will be taking samples at Rock Cut State Park in Winnebago County, owned by the Department; Read more