The Department of Natural Resources is asking Ashland and Bayfield county hunters to help with surveillance efforts to see if chronic wasting disease may be present in free-ranging, wild deer the area. Sampling stations where hunters can bring deer for disease testing will be at the following locations on opening Read more
Preliminary test shows ill deer at shooting preserve near Ashland A white-tailed deer from a shooting preserve in northern Wisconsin has tested positive on a screening test for chronic wasting disease – a discovery that has the potential to bring the disease to a new part of the state. Complicating Read more
The Natural Resources Board has adopted the new 15-year plan for fighting chronic wasting disease in Wisconsin deer. View it on the department website.
A new draft of the 15-year CWD Response Plan has been posted to the DNR’s website: Download here. This draft is the version that will be submitted to the Natural Resources Board for approval. It builds on the work of the stakeholder advisory group, the outside panel review, and public Read more
The public has an opportunity to comment on a revised draft plan that would guide the Department of Natural Resources’ chronic wasting disease (CWD) management efforts for the next 15 years. “We have data about the devastating effects of CWD on deer herds in Colorado and Wyoming,” said Davin Lopez, Read more
Wisconsin and Illinois have reached agreement on guidelines for cooperative management of Chronic Wasting Disease in their states’ deer herds after the fatal neurological disease has been confirmed in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois counties. The agreement, referred to as a memorandum of understanding or MOU, identifies mutual goals for Read more
Hunters and motorists are reminded that new regulations governing the transport of hunter harvested and vehicle killed deer from the chronic wasting disease – Management Zone (CWD-MZ) of southern Wisconsin took effect on Sept. 1. The new rules, approved last year by the state Natural Resources Board, the seven citizen-member Read more
New rules governing the transport of hunter-harvested and vehicle-killed deer from the Chronic Wasting Disease management zone of southern Wisconsin take effect on September 1. According to the Department of Natural Resources, the new rules aim to prevent the tissues most likely to contain CWD from being brought to areas Read more
MADISON – Testing of deer shot last year within the “core area” of chronic wasting disease (CWD) infection in southwest Wisconsin showed an increase in the rate of infection or disease prevalence. Prevalence is the proportion of animals that test positive for CWD, the always fatal nervous system disease of Read more
MADISON – State wildlife officials will again be sampling and testing hunter-harvested white-tailed deer this fall for chronic wasting disease (CWD). The sampling will be conducted primarily in the disease management zone of southern Wisconsin. “Our goal is to monitor trends in disease prevalence and distribution patterns within the western Read more