Barneveld – Wisconsin officials on Sunday continued to implore reluctant hunters to have their deer tested for chronic wasting disease. On the second day of the nine-day gun season, Department of Natural Resources officials said that hunters in many parts of Wisconsin were not donating the heads of deer to Read more
The Wisconsin Division of Public Health today released completed test results related to the investigation into the fatal cases of degenerative neurological illnesses in three men who consumed wild game served during a series of feasts. The test results announced today indicate that Wayne Waterhouse, a northern Wisconsin resident who Read more
BARNEVELD, Wisconsin (Reuters) — In a gravel clearing beside the Eagle Mart Stop-N-Go gas station, about 20 men and a few women, some in flannel shirts and yellow rubberized coveralls, spent a recent weekend sawing the heads off hundreds of Wisconsin deer shot by hunters. Hunting season began early in Read more
Wisconsin’s nine-day gun deer hunt opens Saturday under a cloud of uncertainty. The discovery of chronic wasting disease in 40 wild whitetail deer in south-central Wisconsin, and in captive deer on two game farms, has inalterably changed a tradition that lies at the heart of the state’s culture and identity. Read more
A Hunt Like No Other On the eve of the most important deer hunt in Wisconsin history, 88% of state residents surveyed who held deer hunting licenses last year are planning to head back into the woods this year, according to a Journal Sentinel poll. The poll suggests that, despite Read more
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
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
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
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