A permanent ban on baiting and feeding deer was approved by the state Natural Resources Board Wednesday along with several other measures designed to halt the spread of chronic wasting disease through Wisconsin’s deer herd. The controversial proposal drew hundreds of people to the board meeting and prompted comments from Read more
MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin wildlife officials recapped their fight against chronic wasting disease before a panel of national deer experts Monday, telling them that killing all the deer near Mount Horeb could wipe out the disease in less than a decade. The experts’ visit comes after Department of Natural Resources Read more
Madison – Wildlife experts have found early evidence that female white-tailed deer may migrate much farther than previously believed, a Wisconsin researcher said Monday. The preliminary finding from a radio collar surveillance program in southwestern Wisconsin could have important implications for the spread of chronic wasting disease in the state. Read more
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin is eligible for $885,000 in federal money to help fight chronic wasting disease, with three-fourths of the money intended to cover the cost of testing the state’s deer herd, U.S. Rep. Dave Obey and U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl said Thursday. The money is part of $14.9 Read more
The Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory has tested about 37,000 samples of deer brains for chronic wasting disease and shipped only two suspicious samples to a federal laboratory in Iowa to verify findings, the administrator of the Madison lab said Wednesday. One of the samples was a wild deer from Sheboygan Read more
MADISON, Wis. – Another 11 deer were found with chronic wasting disease in Wisconsin, all within the area where the disease was discovered a year ago, the state Department of Natural Resources reported Friday. It brings the total number of diseased deer found in the Mount Horeb area to 141, Read more
The number of whitetail deer found with a fatal brain disease in southwest Wisconsin jumped to 130 animals Friday, with the discovery of another 36, the state Department of Natural Resources reported. All were killed within the three-county area where the state wants to try to eradicate the chronic wasting Read more
More comprehensive survey yields smaller estimate or original population MADISON — Preliminary analysis of new aerial surveys of the number of white-tailed deer in the area where a fatal brain disorder was discovered in Wisconsin last year indicates that landowners and hunters made significant progress in reducing deer populations in Read more
MADISON — Four more elk herds have been quarantined in the investigation of a case of chronic wasting disease found in an elk on a Manitowoc County farm. The herds contain animals that came from the infected Manitowoc County herd. These animals did not originate in Minnesota, as the infected Read more
DODGEVILLE, Wis. – Thirteen months after chronic wasting disease (CWD) was first discovered in southwest Wisconsin, the first year of shooting and collecting deer ended quietly on Monday, March 31. Collecting deer in the 411 square mile CWD Eradication Zone began in March 2002, after three white-tailed deer shot in Read more