Madison, Wis. – Officials with the Wisconsin Departments of Natural Resources and Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection were notified on Dec. 12 by the USDA’s National Veterinary Services Laboratory (NVSL) in Ames, IA that an escaped male white-tailed deer owned by James Hirschboeck has tested positive for chronic wasting disease Read more
USDA Wildlife Services does the actual killing because they have sharpshooters trained in this type of shooting. They use .308-caliber rifles, shoot at close range (within 50 yards). Shoot animals in the neck and they die instantly. They use silencers (“sound suppressors” is their term) to avoid stirring up the Read more
MADISON — A Walworth County deer herd infected with chronic wasting disease was destroyed Wednesday, Dec. 11, Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection officials said. A 118-whitetail herd owned by James Hirschboeck, Eagle, was put down by gunshot beginning shortly after 8 a.m. A single animal from the herd Read more
MADISON – A second Zone T deer hunt for 2003 is set to open in Zone T deer management units south of Highway 8 at the start of shooting hours on Dec. 12 and run through the end of legal hunting hours on Dec. 15. The Zone T hunts are Read more
State officials have released a Wausau-area deer farm from quarantine after bucks tested negative for chronic wasting disease. Breezy Hill Whitetailsof rural Wausau was released from quarantine this week after the tests came back negative on two yearling bucks from the farm, according to Donna Gilson, spokeswoman for the state Read more
Madison – Encouraged by the pace of testing thus far, a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources official said Wednesday that samples from 36,000 deer could produce results on chronic wasting disease within three months. State officials had been saying that hunters might have to wait up to six months or Read more
A wild deer was discovered with chronic wasting disease for the first time outside a 411-square-mile zone west of Madison, a newspaper reported. A 3-year-old buck shot in Grant County in southwestern Wisconsin during the nine-day hunting season that ended Sunday tested positive for the fatal disease, the Milwaukee Journal Read more
MADISON – A preliminary call-in tally of registration stations across the state shows hunters taking 261,093 deer during the regular nine-day gun deer hunt that closed Sunday. That figure is about 10 percent lower than the similar phone tally of 291,563 from Wisconsin’s 2001season, and about 20 percent lower than Read more
FITCHBURG – Hunters are reminded that the gun deer season continues in the chronic wasting disease (CWD) zones of south central Wisconsin. The gun season runs through Jan.31 in the CWD Intensive Harvest Zone of western Dane – eastern Iowa Counties and a small portion of southern Sauk County. Gun Read more
State wildlife officials collected more than 22,000 deer head samples for its Chronic Wasting Disease deer herd health assessment over opening weekend of the Gun Deer Season. Added to samples taken during summer shooting periods and Zone T season, DNR now has about 32,000 samples in hand. According to veterinarian Read more