BY Randy Zellers ON 12-19-2025 SHERIDAN — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Tuesday confirmed that white-tailed deer from Grant and Sevier counties have tested positive for chronic wasting disease. Two hunter-harvested deer from Grant County were identified by the Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory through the AGFC’s free CWD Read more
LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission recently confirmed that two deer in Cleburne County and another deer in Baxter County have tested positive for chronic wasting disease. Both deer were harvested during the 2024-25 deer hunting season. They join samples from Conway and Stone counties that were confirmed Read more
Date: April 17, 2024Contact: Shelley Todd, 479-451-8122 During recent white-tailed deer herd health sampling at Pea Ridge National Military Park, the National Park Service (NPS) received positive test results for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). One male deer tested positive, which is the first CWD-positive detection within the Military Park. However, CWD has been present Read more
BY Keith Stephens ON 02-22-2024 JONESBORO — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has confirmed that a hunter-harvested white-tailed deer taken in Craighead County tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The 2-year-old doe was harvested near Jonesboro during the Arkansas modern gun deer hunt. A CWD sample was collected by an AGFC Read more
Randy Zellers Assistant Chief of Communications STRONG – The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission today confirmed that a hunter-harvested white-tailed deer taken in Union County tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The deer was harvested in Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge during the permit-based annual modern gun deer hunt. A CWD sample was collected Read more
Nov. 20, 2020 Randy Zellers Assistant Chief of Communications DELAWARE, Ark. — A hunter-harvested white-tailed deer taken west of Delaware (Logan County) tested positive for chronic wasting disease, according to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Research, Evaluation and Compliance Division. The adult male deer was harvested Oct. 18 and voluntary Read more
Dec. 21, 2018 Randy Zellers Assistant Chief of Communications WALDRON – Chronic wasting disease has been found in Scott County. A hunter-harvested white-tailed deer harvested north of Waldron tested positive for the disease, according to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. The buck, sampled through the AGFC’s network of partnering Read more
LITTLE ROCK – Chronic wasting disease, detected in Arkansas almost two years ago, has been found in three more counties. Four white-tailed deer in Benton, Washington and Sebastian counties recently tested positive for the deadly disease, according to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. The deer in Benton County were Read more
JASPER – Six more deer from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s chronic wasting disease sampling effort have turned up positive, according to the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory in Madison. This brings the total of CWD-positive cases of Arkansas deer and elk to 56. All six deer that tested positive Read more
LITTLE ROCK – The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has received 27 more positive cases of chronic wasting disease from a recent batch of samples taken in northern Newton County. This brings the total number of CWD-positive deer and elk cases in Arkansas to 50. Although the intensive sampling effort Read more