BELOIT – Arrangements are now in place so hunters can register deer and get them sampled for chronic wasting disease (CWD) from animals shot in the 25 square mile Disease Eradication Zone (DEZ) along the State Line in Rock County. “We want all adult deer heads from the Rock County Read more
Editor’s Note: this is the second 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. How did wild deer in southwest Wisconsin get CWD? Unfortunately, since the disease Read more
RICHLAND CENTER – The Department of Natural Resources will host an Open House here Thursday, Aug. 28, to provide information on chronic wasting disease (CWD) management efforts in Richland County. The Open house will run from 3:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Wallace Student Center cafeteria on the campus Read more
MADISON — Five deer and elk herds have been quarantined within the expanded boundaries of the Department of Natural Resources chronic wasting disease eradication zone. All are enrolled in the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection’s CWD monitoring program and none have ever shown any sign of the disease Read more
Madison, Wis. – A three-year-old female deer shot by a village police officer in a Fontana city park has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The site of the kill is approximately two miles outside of Wisconsin’s current CWD herd reduction zone. “While this is certainly disappointing, this news is Read more
Editor’s Note: this is the first 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. These questions are ones the public has been asking me and DNR field/front Read more
Dane County might have its own ban on baiting and feeding wild white-tailed deer this fall after the state ban expires Sept. 1. County Board Supervisor Brett Hulsey is introducing an ordinance tonight at the County Board meeting to extend the ban on feeding and baiting deer in Dane County Read more
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of Wisconsin lawmakers is pushing the federal government to make more money available for the fight against chronic wasting disease. U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, a Democrat, and Republican U.S. Reps. Mark Green and Paul Ryan have introduced legislation in Congress to create $20.5 million in Read more
MADISON ― The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection has ordered a Walworth County whitetail deer and elk herd to be killed and tested for chronic wasting disease. The herd, owned by Wayne Kuhnke of Delavan, has been quarantined since September 2002, because animal health officials believe it Read more
MADISON – Researchers continuing to examine the results of the chronic wasting disease (CWD) sampling effort during the 2002 Wisconsin hunting seasons report that the data indicates older bucks have a higher prevalence of the fatal brain disease and that the disease is not uniformly distributed within the infected area. Read more