A Declaration of Emergency (DE) has been issued by Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Secretary Tyler Bosworth in response to a recently confirmed Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) detection in a hunter-harvested white-tailed deer in Ouachita Parish in January. The DE includes all of Ouachita Parish and portions of Read more
Trey Iles – Baton RougeChronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has been reported in a hunter-harvested white-tailed buck in Concordia Parish, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) said. The buck was harvested on Richard K. Yancey Wildlife Management Area (WMA) and is the first CWD detection in a wild deer in Read more
Trey Iles – Baton Rouge The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LWFC) approved a Declaration of Emergency (DE) and Notice of Intent (NOI) to expand the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Control Area in northeast central Louisiana beginning May 1. The action came during the commission’s April 3 meeting in response Read more
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is alerting the public of three additional chronic wasting disease (CWD) positive captive deer in pens permitted by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF). The recent detections in Concordia, St. Landry and Tangipahoa parishes are linked to trace outs from Read more
On November 7, LSU Diagnostics (Louisiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory), in coordination with the National Veterinary Services Laboratory (NVSL), confirmed to the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry’s Office of the State Veterinarian a positive Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) test from a deceased deer at a deer farm in Jefferson Read more
February 4, 2022 Contact: Jennifer Finley, Press Secretary – 225-922-1256Megan Moore, Public Information Director – 225-935-2179presssecretary@LDAF.la.gov CWD Case Found in a White-tailed Deer in Tensas Parish BATON ROUGE, LA – The National Veterinary Services Laboratory (NVSL) has confirmed a case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a Louisiana white-tailed deer to the Read more
Ed Pratt Baton Rouge Chronic wasting disease (CWD), which is fatal to deer, was detected in a 2.5 year-old female white-tailed deer in Union County, Arkansas, 7.5 miles north of the Louisiana-Arkansas border. In response to this detection of CWD near the Louisiana border, the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission Read more
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) will continue surveillance for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) by taking random samples from hunter-killed deer on certain Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) and on private lands through a cooperative effort with landowners this fall. The disease has never been documented in Louisiana or Read more
In August 2002 Louisiana’s deer hunters woke up to headlines they had hoped never to see: Wildlife officials had begun testing deer for chronic wasting disease — an always-fatal brain infection that could wipe out a state’s deer herd and close hunting seasons. Two years after those alarms, wildlife managers Read more
HOUMA — State wildlife agents are sampling the state’s deer population for chronic wasting disease, a fatal illness about which little is known, although it apparently is spreading across the continent. Thousands of hunters flock to the forests each fall and winter to hunt deer, whose populations are flourishing in Read more