HELENA – Ideas on how to deal with chronic wasting disease in Montana range from doing nothing to killing every deer or elk within 80 square miles of where the first diseased animal is found, a new management study shows. The plans, analyzed in an environmental study that went to Read more…
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks officials are seeking public comment on management decisions that might be necessary should chronic wasting disease be discovered in the state’s wild deer and elk herds. CWD, a fatal brain disease in deer and elk, has not yet been found in the wild herds in Read more…
People with good intentions are tempted each spring to remove newborn deer and elk from the wild. This year, as part of Montana’s effort to control the risk of spreading chronic wasting disease (CWD), taking a deer fawn or elk calf from the wild could prove to be fatal for Read more…
Early results from fall testing show no sign of CWD in Montana’s deer and elk herds. “Though there is no sign of the disease in the state’s wild, free-ranging herds, the disease has turned up nearby in Utah, South Dakota, Wyoming and Saskatchewan and Alberta,” said Montana Fish, Wildlife & Read more…
State wildlife officials are urging Montanans who will hunt big game in other states to take precautions to minimize the risk of bringing back animals with Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). “While the chance is remote, our request is part of an ongoing effort to protect Montana’s wild elk and deer Read more…
GREEN RIVER (AP) – An expert on chronic wasting disease hopes to study 20 deer fawns from several Western states this fall. Elizabeth Williams, with the University of Wyoming College of Agriculture, has outlined plans to study 10 mule deer fawns and 10 white-tailed deer fawns in Wyoming, the Casper Read more…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Experts in chronic wasting disease told members of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday that states are digging deep into their own pockets because the federal government is not spending enough to monitor and research the illness. They told members of a Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee Read more…
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks will hold meetings statewide to gather public comments on management options to consider if chronic wasting disease, or CWD, is detected in Montana’s free ranging deer and elk populations. Wildlife managers and others hope the meetings will also help Montanans become more aware of the Read more…
A leading researcher into wasting diseases such as mad cow says scientists may have long been looking at the wrong culprit HAMILTON – Bruce Chesebro is waiting for his monkeys to get chronic wasting disease. A few months ago, Chesebro and other researchers at Rocky Mountain Laboratories here injected a Read more…
HELENA — None of the more than 1,000 samples of deer and elk tissue so far tested this fall for the deadly chronic wasting disease came back positive, wildlife officials say. Hunters submitted some 1,600 samples of deer and elk tissue this past hunting season, said Ron Aasheim of the Read more…