Lawmakers vote to ease rules made to slow wasting disease A legislative committee Thursday directed the state Department of Natural Resources to relax its ban on baiting and feeding deer – or risk a suspension of the controversial rules altogether. The Natural Resources Board approved rules over the summer banning Read more
Game-farm animal is first ill non-deer discovered here Madison – Chronic wasting disease has been found in a farm-raised elk in Manitowoc County, marking the first time in Wisconsin that the ailment has been found in an animal other than a deer, state officials said Tuesday. A 6-year-old female elk, Read more
MADISON, Wis. — (AP) The state Department of Natural Resources has found 16 more deer with chronic wasting disease, and all were killed in the area where the state wants to try to eradicate the disease from the herd, the agency said Friday. That is the largest weekly increase in Read more
State finds violations, lax record keeping at many sites, report says A state inspection of private deer farms, prompted by the discovery of chronic wasting disease, found that 436 white-tailed deer escaped into the wild, officials said Tuesday The Department of Natural Resources found that captive deer have escaped from Read more
FITCHBURG, Wis. – The Department of Natural Resources recently completed an aerial count of deer in the 411-square-mile chronic wasting disease (CWD) Eradication Zone, and the agency is looking to release the results within the next couple of weeks. “We’re crunching the numbers right now,” noted DNR South Central Region Read more
Tough new rule regulating deer and elk farmers becomes law MADISON — The secretaries of the state departments of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, Rod Nilsestuen, and Natural Resources, Scott Hassett, today pledged close cooperation of their agencies in monitoring deer health as the DNR transfers jurisdiction over farm-raised whitetail Read more
MADISON – A new interactive map that allows viewers to check on the number of deer tested for chronic wasting disease in their area is now available on the Department of Natural Resources Web site at http://maps.dnr.state.wi.us/cwd/ The new mapping feature allows people to search the testing effort at a Read more
MADISON – Chronic wasting disease was only one of many reasons gun deer hunters chose to not hunt in 2002 according to a recently completed survey by the Department of Natural resources in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Survey Center. The survey polled 2,100 gun deer hunters from all Read more
Test results fuel optimism deer disease hasn’t spread 4 more deer test positive near illness’ focal point With more than 80% of the planned deer tests completed outside a 10-county southwestern Wisconsin region, no wild deer in the rest of the state has shown signs of chronic wasting disease, state Read more
MADISON — Extended hunting season and reduced white-tailed deer population goals in diseased areas are tools state wildlife managers are proposing to help manage chronic wasting disease under proposed rules that are the topic of a series of hearings scheduled across the state March 17-19. “Lowering the deer population in Read more