With the fall 2004 deer season just about to begin, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) is requesting that Virginia’s more than 260,000 deer hunters and the general public be on the lookout for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) “suspects.” CWD “suspect” animals are defined as deer or Read more
LARAMIE – One mule deer buck harvested Oct. 3 from deer Hunt Area 76 on the east face of the Snowy Range just north of the Colorado line tested positive for chronic wasting disease. CWD had not previously been found in that hunt area. “Finding CWD in this hunt area Read more
SASKATOON – The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed that an elk from a farm in the Battlefords area had Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). Agency spokesperson Sandra Stevens says three farms are now under a quarantine order. “We want to make sure we have all the animals that would have Read more
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is establishing deer head collection sites during the 2004 deer gun season as part of its continuing effort to monitor the state’s deer herd for chronic wasting disease. Hunters are encouraged to stop at collection sites throughout opening weekend and provide the head Read more
In an effort to complete its three-year statewide surveillance for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Minnesota’s wild deer population, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is offering incentives and streamlining its collection process for hunters who bring their deer in for testing. The DNR aims to collect 11,000 lymph node Read more
FITCHBURG – Registration and sample stations are now set in the Department of Natural Resources’ South Central Region for the gun deer seasons beginning Oct. 28 in the chronic wasting disease (CWD) Eradication (DEZ) and Herd Reduction Zones (HRZ) The gun deer season in the DEZ runs from Oct. 28 Read more
FITCHBURG – The gun deer seasons in the chronic wasting disease (CWD) zones of southern and southwest Wisconsin begins Thursday, Oct. 28. Below are several topics based on questions that the public has been posing to DNR field and front line staff. Butchered Waste CWD Disease Eradication Zone (DEZ) hunters Read more
FITCHBURG –The Department of Natural Resources is again offering landowner permits in the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Eradication Zone (DEZ). This year, those permits are available at any license sales location or Department of Natural Resources service center. The permits allow landowners within the DEZ to hunt deer on their Read more
The Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre has released the expert scientific panel report titled “Chronic Wasting Disease in Canadian Wildlife: An Expert Opinion on the Epidemiology and Risks to Wild Deer”. It is available on their web site at http://wildlife1.usask.ca/ccwhc2003/Publications/CWD%20Expert%20Report%20Final%20-%2020040804.pdf (PDF). I recommend this report to everyone; it contains some Read more
Of all the questions she gets about hunting, one is the most common for Cami Wells, Hall County Extension educator for home economics. “They ask, ‘What do I do with this?’ ” Wells said. “A lot of times, the husband will go shoot a deer and then tell the wife, Read more