State officials said Wednesday they recently learned that several deer escaped in March from a northern Walworth County deer farm that is known to have harbored at least one deer with chronic wasting disease. The DNR has dispatched wardens to a game farm owned by James Hirschboeck of the Town Read more
A Walworth County deer farmer whose farm was found last week to contain a deer infected with chronic wasting disease tried to secretly sell a deer to another farmer, despite a quarantine, according to a search warrant filed Tuesday in Dane County Circuit Court. State Department of Natural Resources wardens Read more
Madison- The state Department of Natural Resources has announced it will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) on proposed rules for managing chronic wasting disease in the wild deer herd in Wisconsin. Currently, the department is attempting to control and eradicate chronic wasting disease (CWD) under the authority of emergency Read more
In recent weeks, I am happy and relieved to say that more and more hunters are telling me they have decided to go out and do their part and hunt this year. That’s important because to stop the spread of chronic wasting disease, we need hunters to continue their role Read more
With Hunting Woven into Our Cultural and Economic Fabric, a Threat to the Herd Could Turn Tragic It was nearly noon on Nov. 18, a warm Sunday, the second day of Wisconsin’s 2001 deer season, and Tom Schulenberg was hungry. Eager to hunt that morning, he had skipped breakfast, stuffed Read more
Area game farmers have voluntarily taken extra precautions to keep their animals healthy but with the onset of chronic wasting disease, state rules are even more stringent. The disease, which was discovered in three wild Wisconsin bucks in February, attacks the brains of infected deer and elk and causes the Read more
With breaking news this week that Wisconsin hunters will be able to have an additional 200,000 deer tested for CWD (chronic wasting disease) under an agreement reached between the state and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the state will have available an extremely high intensity program to determine how widespread Read more
Late 1960s Deer begin dying in captivity from a mysterious wasting illness at Foothills Wildlife Research Facility in Fort Collins, Colo. Later, some of the deer are returned to the wild. 1977 Colorado State University graduate student Elizabeth Williams is the first person to identify the deer ailment as a Read more
Bob Shull, director of Wisconsin’s new veterinary diagnostic lab in Madison, said Wednesday workers were set to dive with both feet into the state’s chronic wasting disease surveillance activities. “Our people are 100 percent fully trained and ready to do validation work,” Shull said. The state-of-the-art facility was funded by Read more
Madison, Wis. – The chronic wasting disease (CWD) test results from the August 10-16, 2002 landowner shooting period in western Dane and eastern Iowa Counties are in, and wildlife managers report that 9 of 358 deer harvested tested positive. These nine new positives bring the tally of known CWD cases Read more