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
White-tailed deer, it seems, are homebodies. That is the upshot of an intensive study of the traveling behaviors of 173 radio-collared white-tailed deer in south central Wisconsin. The new results, which surprised researchers by revealing how little deer move about the landscape, are important because they may help researchers and Read more
MADISON – The first of the 2005 gun deer hunting seasons is set to open on Oct. 27 with antlerless deer only hunts in deer management units that are designated as Zone T and in southern Wisconsin’s Chronic Wasting Disease zones. An annual youth deer hunt will take place on Read more
MADISON – Adult deer harvested in the zones established around the areas of south central and southeastern Wisconsin where chronic wasting disease has been found in white-tailed deer will be tested for the disease in 2005 and state wildlife officials will also conduct intensive disease surveillance testing in northeast Wisconsin. Read more
FITCHBURG – Once again, hunters interested in donating deer harvested in the chronic wasting disease (CWD) western Disease Eradication Zone (DEZ) of southwest Wisconsin to food pantries have that option thanks to many area meat processors. Hunters can take their DEZ-harvested deer for donation to cooperating meat processors from Sept. Read more
Last Chronic Wasting Disease testing was statewide in 2002 GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Department of Natural Resources will be conducting surveillance of adult deer for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the 16 county Northeast Region this fall. Last sampled in 2002, the DNR is beginning a process of out-state Read more