Editor’s Note: this is the last of eight bi-weekly columns in which the Department of Natural Resources Secretary will try to answer some of the many questions and concerns related to Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Wisconsin. I would like to end this series on an optimistic and hopeful note. Read more
Editor’s Note: this is the seventh of eight biweekly columns in which the Department of Natural Resources Secretary will try to answer some of the many questions and concerns related to Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Wisconsin. “To say we’ve been on a steep learning curve with Chronic Wasting Disease Read more
MADISON — A fourth deer from a Portage County hunting preserve has tested positive for chronic wasting disease, State Veterinarian Dr. Robert Ehlenfeldt announced today. The National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, reported Tuesday, Nov. 2, that a 5½-year-old whitetail shot at Buckhorn Flats Game Farm, Almond, was infected Read more
MILWAUKEE – In a California laboratory, “humanized” brains of more than 100 mice that were injected with chronic wasting disease lie frozen, waiting for the second part of an experiment that could help answer a burning question. Can people get sick by eating deer infected with chronic wasting disease? With Read more
Madison , Wis. – A wild white-tailed deer has tested positive for chronic wasting disease in the disease eradication zone (DEZ) of Rock County. This is the first CWD positive discovered in the 25-square mile zone that was established by the Department of Natural Resources this year due to proximity Read more
MADISON — No chronic wasting disease was found among whitetail deer destroyed on a Sauk County farm after one of their herdmates tested positive for the disease in October, State Veterinarian Dr. Robert Ehlenfeldt said today. The 2-year-old buck that tested positive was one of only four deer on the Read more
The Department of Natural Resources will continue testing deer for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Taylor County on the opening weekend of this year’s 9-day-gun season. Hunters are requested they bring deer in for sampling. “ We didn’t reach our sampling goal last fall,” says Mark Schmidt, wildlife manager, “and Read more
FITCHBURG – Registration and deer head collection stations are now set in the Department of Natural Resources 11-county South Central Region (SCR) as preparations continue for the 2003 gun deer season. Again this year, there are three season frameworks in the SCR stemming from the DNR’s efforts to combat the Read more
DODGEVILLE – Hunters are reminded that DNR will not provide drop-off sites for butchered waste or carcasses this year for deer harvested in the chronic wasting disease (CWD) Herd Reduction Zone (HRZ). Instead, hunters are encouraged to donate excess venison for distribution to food panties around the state. “We don’t Read more
MADISON – Three more whitetail deer herds have been quarantined in the investigation of chronic wasting disease on a Portage County hunting preserve, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection announced today. According to State Veterinarian Dr. Robert Ehlenfeldt, owners of the recently quarantined herds are believed to Read more