MADISON — A Dane County deer farm was released from quarantine Feb. 7 after authorities determined it had no connection with chronic wasting disease, acting state veterinarian Dr. Robert Ehlenfeldt announced. The farm is owned by Mark and Doug Deegan, Brooklyn. The deer herd was quarantined in October 2002 as Read more
MADISON – The public will have an opportunity to discuss results of the 2002 deer hunt and the deer population status of Deer Management Units (DMUs) at local public information meetings scheduled across the state. Department of Natural Resources wildlife managers will discuss deer harvest results by DMU, population estimates, Read more
MADISON, Wis. – Scott Hassett, newly-appointed Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources secretary, doesn’t plan to change the department’s approach to fighting chronic wasting disease, even though five deer outside the Eradication Zone have tested positive for the fatal deer and elk disease. One of those deer was killed near Muscoda Read more
PARK FALLS — Over 400 people, many of them obviously furious over the deer feeding and baiting ban imposed by the Department of Natural Resources as a still- unproven way to combat chronic wasting disease, attended a meeting at Park Falls High School Wednesday night, Jan. 22, organized by founders Read more
Madison, Wis. – Citizens will have an opportunity to comment on proposed rules for on-going management of chronic wasting disease (CWD) at a series of public hearings. The Natural Resources Board approved the hearings at its January 22 meeting in Madison. Hearing locations across the state will be announced shortly. Read more
MONONA , Wis. – Department of Natural Resources wildlife researchers are planning to conduct aerial deer counts in the chronic wasting disease (CWD) Eradication and Management Zones as soon as the weather cooperates. “We need five or six inches of snow on the ground to cover logs and stumps so Read more
Results from 5 wild whitetails could prompt new strategy by state. For the first time, chronic wasting disease has been found in wild deer killed outside the 411-square-mile eradication zone southwest of Madison, suggesting that the state may have to broaden its strategy against the disease. The Department of Natural Read more
Landowner shooting permits extended through March 31 MADISON – Landowners in Wisconsin’s Chronic Wasting Disease Eradication Zone west of Madison will be allowed to hunt deer over bait under emergency rules that the state Natural Resources Board approved in a special session conference call Tuesday, Jan. 7. The board also Read more
Wildlife managers at the state Department of Natural Resources are recommending that landowners be allowed to use bait to attract and kill more deer in the eradication zone near Mount Horeb. The use of bait, usually corn, for hunting deer was outlawed last year to help fight the spread of Read more
Hassett named by governor-elect to be new DNR Secretary MADISON — The discovery of chronic wasting disease in three white-tailed deer from the Mt. Horeb area of Iowa and Dane counties on Feb. 28, was the state’s biggest natural resources story of 2002, and perhaps the most far-reaching biological, social Read more