LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Thursday transferred responsibility for overseeing captive elk and deer herds from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Natural Resources. Her executive order will allow for auditing the 800 private deer and elk herds statewide to try to keep any cases Read more
The Michigan Natural Resources Commission today approved an Interim Order allowing residents in parts of the Upper Peninsula to obtain supplemental deer feeding permits. Permits will be issued to applicants in Ontonagon, Houghton, Keweenaw, Baraga, Alger, and Luce counties, and the portions of Marquette and Chippewa counties north of the Read more
Michigan Department of Natural Resources officials today reminded Michigan residents that supplemental feeding of deer is against the law in every Michigan county. There are no exceptions to this regulation, which was enacted by the Natural Resources Commission on May 16, 2003. Supplemental feeding concentrates deer in a relatively small Read more
LANSING – The state should conduct a thorough audit of all captive deer and elk facilities and transfer oversight of the industry to the Department of Natural Resources if it hopes to keep chronic wasting disease (CWD) out of Michigan, a governor-appointed task force said Wednesday. Calling CWD “the most Read more
LANSING — Chronic wasting disease has yet to rear its head in Michigan, but state wildlife experts say the presence of the deadly infectious disease in neighboring states demands vigilance to avoid a natural resources and economic crisis. Chronic wasting disease “poses such a threat to our wildlife that it Read more
April 25, 2003 – Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) Director Dan Wyant today extended the state’s existing ban on all imports of cervidae (deer and elk) as a continued precaution against Chronic Wasting Disease. The Department oversees the licensing, registration and inspection of the state’s privately owned, or farmed, deer Read more
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
Thankfully, we’ve made it through another deer season without chronic wasting disease (CWD) showing up in our wildlife. But the politics surrounding CWD are heating up and taking an ugly turn. To review: CWD is an always-fatal neurological disease of cervids (deer and elk) caused by a mutated protein. A Read more
Lansing — As of Jan. 9, 4,332 of the state’s free-ranging and captive white-tailed deer and elk had been tested for chronic wasting disease and all test results have been negative. “So far, so good,” said Dr. Dan O’Brien, a veterinarian at the DNR’s Rose Lake Research Center. “The test Read more
Michigan is scrambling to protect its herd of 1.8 million deer from the deadly and mysterious chronic wasting disease, already discovered in parts of 11 states. As more than 750,000 hunters trudge into the woods for Friday’s opening of the firearms deer season, experts say the fatal illness, similar to Read more