U.S. Senator Russ Feingold is pushing for federal assistance to be given to the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Interior for the surveillance, management, research, and eradication of Chronic Wasting Disease. In letters to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Agriculture and Interior, Feingold called on appropriators to fund state wildlife Read more
Hunters can help protect Arizona’s deer and elk The Arizona Game and Fish Department needs 1,600 deer and elk heads to test for the possible presence of chronic wasting disease (CWD). Please bring the head of your recently harvested deer or elk to any department office between the hours of Read more
The Arizona Game and Fish Department is warning people not to play good Samaritan by picking up what they believe to be orphaned deer or elk calves from the wild. In most cases, say the state’s wildlife experts, the wild animals are not truly orphaned, and removing them from the Read more
The second year of testing wild deer turned up no cases of the disease. JEFFERSON CITY–For the second year in a row, laboratory tests found no Missouri deer with chronic wasting disease (CWD). The Missouri Department of Conservation says it plans to continue testing deer taken in this year’s hunting Read more
HORICON – Dodge County residents are reminded that a ban on baiting and feeding deer in the entire county went into effect last month. Department of Natural Resources secretary Scott Hassett signed an emergency order on June 15 which continues the ban on placing feed for deer in those areas Read more
OLYMPIA – As a further precaution aimed at keeping chronic wasting disease (CWD) out of Washington, hunters may soon be prohibited from bringing home unprocessed carcasses of deer and elk from states and Canadian provinces where the disease is present in wild populations. The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission is Read more
Human Dimensions of Wildlife Volume 9 (2004) Quarterly ISSN Print 1087-1209 ISSN Online 1533-158X Human Dimensions of Wildlife is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of social considerations in fisheries and wildlife management. The journal provides an open forum for exchange of human dimensions information. This special issue Read more
MADISON — No more cases of chronic wasting disease have been found in a Racine County whitetail deer herd that was killed and tested after one of the deer turned up positive in a routine test last month. The remaining 15 deer owned by Colin Breber, of Raymond, were killed Read more
U.S. Reps. Ron Kind, Mark Green and Paul Ryan, all members of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus Chronic Wasting Disease Taskforce, sent a letter on Monday to House Agriculture appropriators requesting support for President Bush’s Fiscal Year 2005 budget request of $20.1 million for the surveillance, management, research, and eradication of Read more
MADISON — Baiting and feeding deer will be banned in 26 southern Wisconsin counties effective noon June 17, under a secretary’s order signed by Department of Natural Resources Secretary Scott Hassett. Previously, 24 counties had been included in the ban. The recent discovery of deer that tested positive for chronic Read more