The quest for whitetails during the upcoming firearms deer season in Missouri will include a wide-scale hunt for a disease that hasn’t yet been found in the state. Jeff Beringer hopes testing brain stems from 6,000 deer for chronic wasting disease will show the disease isn’t present in Missouri’s deer Read more
Two laboratories will accept elk or deer heads to be tested for chronic wasting disease from hunters in Montana. The Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory will conduct the tests for $25. Hunters can send a well-wrapped deer or elk head, either well cooled or frozen, to the lab. Test results will Read more
Montana hunters who want to get their harvested elk or deer tested for chronic wasting disease will need to send the heads of their animals, or parts of the lymph nodes and brain stem, to laboratories in Wyoming or Colorado. Budget constraints have forced the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife Read more
Raleigh, N.C. (October 25)—The NC Wildlife Resources Commission, with support from the NC Department of Agriculture, is acting with vigilence to keep chronic wasting disease out of North Carolina. To this end, the Commission temporarily amended several sections of the NC Administrative Code on October 8, 2002. These amendments are Read more
The disease that claimed hundreds of Ohio white-tailed deer in recent weeks has run its course, but hunters here and around the country still have reason to worry. EHD is epizootic hemorrhagic disease and spread by small, biting insects. Cold weather has arrived in southern Ohio, where EHD was prevalent, Read more
PORTLAND — The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission on Friday amended an emergency temporary rule dealing with the importation of deer and elk carcasses into Oregon. The rule was approved in response to fears about the potential spread of chronic wasting disease into Oregon’s captive and wild herds of deer Read more
Michigan Department of Natural Resources officials today reminded Michigan hunters headed out-of-state to hunt deer and elk this fall to take common-sense precautions to avoid accidentally bringing Chronic Wasting Disease back to Michigan. Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a highly contagious disease of the nervous system that affects white-tailed deer, Read more
Raleigh, N.C. (September 9)—With more states reporting cases of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) and national sporting magazines running full-length features on the topic, this disease of deer and elk is receiving more attention than ever. North Carolina hunters want to know—is our deer herd disease-free? Are we safe? The North Read more
Hoping to slow the spread of bovine tuberculosis and chronic wasting disease (CWD), Manitoba Conservation has broadened its existing bans on baiting cervids (deer, elk, moose, caribou) for the purpose of hunting. It’s already illegal to bait cervids for hunting, and to hunt near crops left in fields to lure Read more
Raleigh, N.C. (May 16) – In response to a national wildlife disease situation, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission yesterday adopted an emergency rule to keep North Carolina’s deer herd healthy. The target of the emergency rule, Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), came to national attention on September 21, 2001, when the Read more