MADISON – Starting Friday, Nov. 15, citizens and hunters will be able to check on the progress Wisconsin wildlife and health officials are making testing the thousands of samples hunters have donated from deer shot across the state to be tested for chronic wasting disease. The will publish the testing Read more
MADISON–A legislative committee voted unanimously Thursday to extend the state’s ban on baiting and feeding deer through at least April 1, maintaining a power the Department of Natural Resources says is an invaluable tool in fighting chronic wasting disease. Several feed providers begged the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules to Read more
Campaigning for fellow GOP candidates was not the only reason Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson came back to Wisconsin just one day before today’s election. While in Sheboygan at the Gander Mountain store Monday morning, campaigning for 9th Senate District candidate Joe Leibham, R-Sheboygan, and Gov. Scott McCallum, Read more
Since Wisconsin instituted the Zone T deer hunting seasons in 1996 to help control the size of the state’s deer herd, interest in the special antlerless-only deer hunts has been mixed. Part of that is because the number of deer management units (DMUs) open for the season varies from year Read more
MADISON — A Portage County deer farm has been quarantined as part of the ongoing investigation into chronic wasting disease among captive and farm-raised deer, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection said. A quarantine means only that all live animal movement off the farm has to stop Read more
CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE: Infected brain tissue from deer will be injected into healthy cows to determine whether the disease can jump species. MILWAUKEE – Scientists will soon inject brain tissue from deer infected with chronic wasting disease into the brains of healthy cattle to see whether the cows develop a Read more
Tom Harelson, outgoing chief conservation warden for the Department of Natural Resources, believes the threat of fish and wildlife diseases – especially chronic wasting disease – is the the biggest challenge facing wardens today. “The world of the warden will never be the same as before CWD was found in Read more
Rumors are running wild this week as a legislative committee prepares to hear testimony on whether to extend rules related to controlling chronic wasting disease. Those rules, which include a statewide ban on baiting and feeding, were approved by the Natural Resources Board in June and will expire Nov. 30 Read more
MADISON – Cool rainy weather across much of the state on Oct 24 and 25 appeared to reduce hunter interest and success during the first two days of the 2002 Zone T gun deer hunt, but activity picked up with drier weather Saturday and Sunday. A preliminary total of 27,676 Read more
MADISON – The Department of Natural Resources will ask the legislative Joint Committee on Review of Administrative Rules to extend until Sept. 1, 2003 emergency rules related to controlling chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Wisconsin. The rules, approved by the Natural Resources Board in June, will expire on Nov. 30 Read more