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
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
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