Wildlife officials and researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are closely watching for results of new control strategies designed to contain Chronic Wasting Disease in the state’s whitetail deer herd. According to the Department of Natural Resources, the largest change from last year is the compression of the white-tailed gun Read more
Milwaukee, Wis. – This year, deer harvested in Washington, Ozaukee, Dodge, Sheboygan, northern Waukesha, Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha counties will be sampled for Chronic Wasting Disease. Deer heads will be collected during the early bow and gun deer seasons. The bow season runs Sept. 16 to Nov. 16 and Nov. Read more
As deer hunters across the state take part in the archery season and look forward to the gun season there’s usually only one thing on their mind…bagging that trophy buck. But this season, hunters in West Central Wisconsin can help make sure Chronic Wasting Disease doesn’t make its way into Read more
FITCHBURG, Wis. – Either sex harvest for bow and gun hunting, shorter seasons and a longer break between them highlights changes to deer hunting rules for southern Wisconsin’s chronic wasting disease (CWD) zones this fall. The rules, approved earlier this year by the Natural Resources Board, the DNR’s seven citizen Read more
181 deer from 2005-06 hunting season tested positive for CWD FITCHBURG, Wis. – Either sex harvest for bow and gun hunting, shorter seasons, and a longer break between the seasons highlight changes to deer hunting rules for southern Wisconsin’s chronic wasting disease (CWD) zones this fall. The rules were approved Read more
MADISON — The public will have an opportunity to comment on proposed deer hunting rules in zones established to control and eliminate chronic wasting disease in Wisconsin at a series of open house meetings and public hearings across southern Wisconsin. The Department of Natural Resources will conduct five deer management Read more
MADISON — Laboratory results from white-tailed deer killed on a Portage County farm earlier this year show that 60 of the 76 animals tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The deer — a mix of does and yearlings — were destroyed Jan. 17 by U.S. Department of Agriculture shooters under Read more
MADISON – Department of Natural Resources biologists will conduct an aerial deer population count in the chronic wasting disease (CWD) Disease Eradication Zones (DEZ) beginning the week of February 20, weather permitting. Agency biologists will use a helicopter to determine the number of deer in the 1,280 square mile western Read more
DODGEVILLE – Don Bates recently accepted the newly created position of chronic wasting disease (CWD) operations supervisor for southwest Wisconsin, the state agency announced today. Mr. Bates, 49, is now responsible for overseeing all CWD field personnel in the western Disease Eradication Zone (DEZ) and Herd Reduction Zone (HRZ), along Read more
Waukesha, Wis. Ongoing surveillance by the state Department of Natural Resources has detected a chronic wasting disease (CWD) positive deer outside of the Disease Eradication Zone (DEZ), the state agency announced today. The deer was found in Walworth County in the CWD Herd Reduction Zone (HRZ), an area covering all Read more