New research on how far deer travel each year may help state wildlife managers predict how far and fast Chronic Wasting Disease will spread. The results of tracking 80 radio-collared deer in the CWD hot zone this year found most adult does and bucks stay within one square mile. Young Read more
Milwaukee – The Department of Natural Resources, in cooperation with landowners who have granted access to their properties, soon will begin shooting deer outside normal shooting hours and at night with the aid of artificial light in selected areas of the chronic wasting disease management zones. DNR staff will also Read more
FITCHBURG – Hunters are reminded that the playing field changes in the chronic wasting disease (CWD) Eradication Zones after the close of the regular gun and bow seasons on Jan. 3, 2005. Landowner Permits Beginning Jan. 4, only DEZ landowners or persons hunting under the authority of a landowner permit Read more
PLAIN – A chronic wasting disease (CWD) positive deer was identified recently in Sauk County just outside the western CWD Disease Eradication Zone (DEZ) boundary, the Department of Natural Resources announced today. The 1 ½ year old doe was shot by a hunter west of Plain in the Town of Read more
MADISON, Wis. – Chronic wasting disease surveillance efforts in the southeastern portion of Wisconsin have identified three CWD-positive wild white-tailed deer harvested by hunters in the herd reduction zone (HRZ) of Walworth County, Department of Natural Resources officials report. The DNR increased surveillance around the Walworth and Rock County positives Read more
MADISON–A whitetail deer shot on a Portage County hunting preserve has tested positive for chronic wasting disease causing the suspected farm from which the animal originated to be placed under quarantine. A male whitetail deer shot in October at the Buckhorn Flats Game Farm, Almond, tested positive for the fatal Read more
DODGEVILLE – Hunters interested in donating deer harvested in the chronic wasting disease (CWD) Disease Eradication Zone (DEZ) of southern and southwest Wisconsin to food pantries now have that option thanks to five area meat processors. Hunters can take their DEZ-harvested deer for donation through March 31, 2005 to: Black Read more
FITCHBURG – The gun deer seasons in the chronic wasting disease (CWD) zones of southern and southwest Wisconsin begins Thursday, Oct. 28. Below are several topics based on questions that the public has been posing to DNR field and front line staff. Butchered Waste CWD Disease Eradication Zone (DEZ) hunters Read more
FITCHBURG – Hunters are reminded that they must allow the Department of Natural Resources to collect deer heads for chronic wasting disease (CWD) testing, if requested by agency staff. DNR will be sampling adult deer – no fawns – Nov. 20-21 at 15 locations in the CWD Herd Reduction Zone Read more
MADISON,Wis. – The Chronic Wasting Disease Reward Program, a joint effort between Whitetails Unlimited and the Department of Natural Resources that rewards hunters and landowners for their efforts to help control CWD, is in place for its second year in the disease eradication zones this deer hunting season. The CWD Read more