The North Dakota Game and Fish Department will continue its Hunter-Harvested Surveillance program during the 2007 hunting season by sampling deer from units in the eastern third of the state. Samples from hunter-harvested deer will be tested for chronic wasting disease and bovine tuberculosis from units: 1, 2A, 2B, 2C, Read more
North Dakota deer and elk populations remain free of chronic wasting disease, according to test results recently received by the state Game and Fish Department. Last fall, North Dakota hunters submitted samples for testing from 2,993 wild deer, 37 elk and four moose collected during the 2006 hunting season. All Read more
Test results for chronic wasting disease on 1,536 wild deer and 31 elk collected from North Dakota hunters during the 2005 hunting season are negative, according to Dorothy Fecske, State Game and Fish Department wildlife disease biologist. Samples for CWD testing were sent to the Wyoming State Veterinary Lab last Read more
BISMARCK, N.D. – Eleven captive white-tailed deer that escaped from a landowner’s enclosure south of here pose little risk of chronic wasting disease, the state veterinarian says. “The risk of CWD in these animals is minimal to none. This herd has been under surveillance since 1998,” Dr. Susan Keller said Read more
The number of deer samples needed for testing of chronic wasting disease has been met for the 2005 hunting season, according to Dorothy Fecske, wildlife disease biologist for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. Collection sites are no longer set up, Fecske said, as the goal of collecting heads Read more
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department will continue its chronic wasting disease Hunter-Harvested Surveillance program during the 2005 deer season. Hunters are encouraged to provide samples from their deer by stopping at any of the department’s district offices and three participating national wildlife refuges – Tewaukon NWR at Cayuga, Read more
The governor’s proclamation establishing guidelines for transporting deer and elk carcasses and carcass parts into North Dakota has been signed, according to Greg Link, assistant wildlife chief for the state Game and Fish Department. The 2005 proclamation, signed by Gov. John Hoeven, provides transportation and importation guidelines for white-tailed deer, Read more
051105 Officials from the North Dakota Game and Fish Department continue to receive good news from scientists conducting tests for chronic wasting disease. Test results for CWD on more than 1,900 wild deer and 26 elk collected from hunters during the 2004 hunting season are negative, according to Greg Link, Read more
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department has obtained the minimum number of deer samples needed this year from hunter-harvested deer in all hunting units in the state, according to Jacquie Ermer, wildlife disease biologist, Riverdale. Hunters have been dropping deer heads off at collection sites throughout the hunting season Read more
North Dakota’s 2004 Hunter-Harvested Surveillance program for chronic wasting disease is off to a good start. So far, State Game and Fish Department personnel have taken samples for testing from more than 1,000 hunter-harvested deer, according to Jacquie Ermer, wildlife disease biologist, Riverdale. “We received tremendous cooperation from hunters, meat Read more