Lincoln, Neb. — The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission is asking deer hunters to again help monitor the status of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the state. Bruce Trindle, a fish and wildlife specialist in the disease section of the Commissions wildlife division, said biologists hope to collect retropharyngeal lymph Read more
FITCHBURG – The Department of Natural Resources has added a fifth agency operated deer registration/collection station to better serve hunters now through the traditional nine-day gun season in the western chronic wasting disease (CWD) Eradication Zone (DEZ). Heck’s Farm Market, 7266 State Highway 14, Arena, will be open weekends (Saturdays Read more
Three sites in northeastern Montana have been added to locations where hunters can drop off deer and elk heads to be tested for chronic wasting disease. The Pro Co-Op in Opheim, West Side Sports in Malta and Hi-Line Sports in Plentywood will have barrels available for CWD collection. Hunters are Read more
THERMOPOLIS – Two mature mule deer bucks harvested in hunt area 127 immediately northwest of Thermopolis have tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal brain disease that can affect all members of Wyoming’s deer family. CWD had not previously been detected in this area. Worland Wildlife Biologist Bart Read more
Waukesha ,Wis. ––Hunters interested in donating deer harvested in the southeast Wisconsin Disease Eradication Zone (DEZ) have that option, thanks to area meat processors. Deer meat that tests negative for chronic wasting disease (CWD) will be donated to a food pantry. Hunters can take their DEZ-harvested deer for donation to Read more
Richmond, VA — The Board of Game and Inland Fisheries passed at their October 27, 2005 meeting a regulation that prohibits the importation or possession of whole deer carcasses or specified parts of carcasses originating from a state or Canadian province in which Chronic Wasting Disease has been found in Read more
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department will continue its chronic wasting disease Hunter-Harvested Surveillance program during the 2005 deer season. Hunters are encouraged to provide samples from their deer by stopping at any of the department’s district offices and three participating national wildlife refuges – Tewaukon NWR at Cayuga, Read more
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Vernon R. Ross today offered testimony before a joint Senate Game and Fisheries Committee and Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee information hearing on the efforts being made to prevent chronic wasting disease from entering the Commonwealth. Others offering testimony included state Department Read more
LARAMIE – The first deer and elk to test positive for chronic wasting disease in deer hunt area 77 and elk hunt area 8 south of Laramie were discovered this hunting season by the Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory and Game and Fish Department. The discovery was not surprising because CWD Read more
LITTLE ROCK – In an effort to minimize the risk of chronic wasting disease being brought into Arkansas, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission today passed an emergency ban on the importation of cervid carcasses. The ban goes into effect immediately. In 2002, the AGFC passed a similar law making Read more