Madison – Sharpshooters may be enlisted in a state campaign to thin deer herds in suburbs in southeastern Wisconsin to stave off the spread of chronic wasting disease, under a proposal unveiled Wednesday. Because of infected wild deer found in Kenosha and Walworth counties, wildlife biologists are worried about the Read more
Alliance, Neb. – Game and Parks Commission biologists killed 26 deer east of Alliance last week as part of their continuing efforts to monitor chronic wasting disease (CWD) in western Nebraska, according to Gary Schlichtemeier, district wildlife manager at the commissions district office in Alliance. Schlichtemeier said “The recent culling Read more
Increased vigilance for animals exhibiting signs of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Wind Cave National Park resulted in the discovery of an elk displaying clinical signs of the disease. The elk was euthanized and tissue samples from it later tested positive for CWD. Called targeted surveillance, this increase level of Read more
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks will hold meetings statewide to gather public comments on management options to consider if chronic wasting disease, or CWD, is detected in Montana’s free ranging deer and elk populations. Wildlife managers and others hope the meetings will also help Montanans become more aware of the Read more
HARRISBURG — Samples taken from hunter-killed elk and white-tailed deer during the state’s 2003 hunting seasons have all tested negative for chronic wasting disease (CWD), according to Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Vern Ross. “Currently, there are no confirmed or suspected cases of CWD-infected deer or elk in Pennsylvania, and Read more
A computer model that is the basis of the Colorado Division of Wildlife’s controversial strategy to kill larger numbers of deer and elk to curb the spread of chronic wasting disease has a fundamental flaw, according to researchers in Illinois. That flaw, according to a paper published last fall in Read more
Scientists aren’t sure of success in fighting disease in deer, elk Chronic wasting disease rates appear to be falling in the most infected areas of Colorado and Wisconsin and rising in Wyoming and Nebraska, while the distribution of the disease is spreading in all four states. But that picture, drawn Read more
Madison, Wis. – A second wild white-tailed deer has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the Village of Fontana-On-Geneva Lake in southern Walworth County. This latest positive was collected about one mile north of the first CWD-positive wild deer reported from the area in August 2003. “We are Read more
MADISON — Another whitetail deer from a Portage County hunting preserve has tested positive for chronic wasting disease, State Veterinarian Dr. Robert Ehlenfeldt announced today. This brings the total to seven CWD-positive animals from Buckhorn Flats Game Farm, Almond, owned by Stan Hall. The National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Read more
Some Arizona Game and Fish Department customers have called us because they have heard rumors that a hunting guide diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) may have gotten the disease from handling a hunter-killed elk in Game Management Unit 2B. The rumor is that CJD can be caused by a wildlife Read more