A mule deer taken from unit 3F2 during opening weekend of the deer gun season has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. Dr. Dan Grove, North Dakota Game and Fish Department wildlife veterinarian, said a hunter shot a doe in western Grant County and submitted the head for testing as Read more
A mule deer taken in November during the deer gun season from unit 3F2 is the second deer in North Dakota to test positive for chronic wasting disease. The first was a mule deer taken during the hunting season in 2009, also from unit 3F2. Dr. Dan Grove, North Dakota Read more
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Game and Fish, and South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks are coordinating efforts to increase surveillance in and around the location where a mule deer taken last fall in southwestern North Dakota tested positive for chronic wasting disease. According Read more
The remaining 1,000 North Dakota deer samples that were tested for chronic wasting disease and bovine tuberculosis are negative, according to Dr. Dan Grove, wildlife veterinarian for the State Game and Fish Department. In all, more than 3,000 targeted and hunter-harvested samples from 2009 were sent to a lab in Read more
North Dakota Game and Fish Department officials were notified this morning by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Veterinary Services that a sick-looking mule deer taken last fall in western Sioux County has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. This is the first time CWD has been detected in a North Read more
The state Game and Fish Department will continue its Hunter-Harvested Surveillance program during the 2009 hunting season by sampling deer for chronic wasting disease and bovine tuberculosis from 17 units in western North Dakota and two in the northeast. In addition, all moose and elk harvested in the state are Read more
Samples taken from North Dakota deer, elk and moose during the 2008 hunting season have tested negative for chronic wasting disease and bovine tuberculosis, according to Dr. Dan Grove, wildlife veterinarian for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. Last fall, samples for CWD testing were taken from nearly 2,300 Read more
The 2008 proclamation establishing guidelines for transporting deer, elk and moose carcasses and carcass parts into North Dakota is now in effect as a precaution against the possible spread of chronic wasting disease into the state. To date, CWD has not been diagnosed in North Dakota, but has been found Read more
Samples taken from North Dakota deer, elk and moose during the 2007 hunting season have tested negative for chronic wasting disease, according to the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. Last fall, samples were taken from more than 1,200 deer in the eastern third of the state, and nearly 60 Read more
North Dakota’s Hunter-Harvested Surveillance program in the eastern third of the state is off to a good start, as nearly 500 deer have been sampled for chronic wasting disease and bovine tuberculosis. “The cooperation from hunters has been truly remarkable,” said Dr. Erika Butler, wildlife veterinarian for the Game and Read more