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
MADISON – The perimeter fence was intentionally cut at Buckhorn Flats, an Almond hunting preserve infected with chronic wasting disease (CWD), natural resources and agriculture officials reported Friday. State officials are concerned because of possible exposure of wild (free-ranging) deer to the disease. It is unknown when the fence was Read more
RICHLAND CENTER – A chronic wasting disease (CWD) positive wild white-tailed deer was detected recently in the Richland County Town of Orion outside of the Disease Eradication Zone (DEZ), the state Department of Natural Resources announced today. The one-and-one-half year old doe was shot by a hunter Oct. 29, 2005 Read more
FITCHBURG – Ongoing surveillance by the state Department of Natural Resources has resulted in the detection of three chronic wasting disease (CWD) positive deer outside of the Disease Eradication Zone (DEZ), the state agency announced today. The three deer were found in Dane, Jefferson and Sauk Counties in the CWD Read more
FITCHBURG – The Department of Natural Resources has added a fifth agency operated deer registration/collection station to better serve hunters now through the traditional nine-day gun season in the western chronic wasting disease (CWD) Eradication Zone (DEZ). Heck’s Farm Market, 7266 State Highway 14, Arena, will be open weekends (Saturdays Read more
Waukesha ,Wis. ––Hunters interested in donating deer harvested in the southeast Wisconsin Disease Eradication Zone (DEZ) have that option, thanks to area meat processors. Deer meat that tests negative for chronic wasting disease (CWD) will be donated to a food pantry. Hunters can take their DEZ-harvested deer for donation to Read more