MADISON, Wis. – Scott Hassett, newly-appointed Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources secretary, doesn’t plan to change the department’s approach to fighting chronic wasting disease, even though five deer outside the Eradication Zone have tested positive for the fatal deer and elk disease. One of those deer was killed near Muscoda Read more
Purdue University and the state of Indiana have joined a federal effort to prevent spread of chronic wasting disease, a fatal illness that has been detected in wild and domestic deer and elk in 11 states, not including Indiana. This month, pathologists at the Indiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratories (ADDL), Read more
The Minnesota Board of Animal Health would regulate all captive elk and deer in the state under a legislative proposal to help stop the spread of chronic wasting disease. The proposal by a broad-based task force would have the board operate a mandatory registration and chronic wasting disease surveillance program. Read more
“When I saw who the e-mail was from, my heart rate went up about 20% before I opened it.” Those are the words of Larry Marcum, the Chief of Wildlife Management with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. The e-mail was from Richard Gerhold, Staff Veterinarian with the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Read more
PIERRE – With the majority of deer and elk samples from this past fall now tested and returned, the Department of Game, Fish and Parks reports that six more deer have tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). Of the 1,938 deer and elk sampled for CWD in the past Read more
Lansing — As of Jan. 9, 4,332 of the state’s free-ranging and captive white-tailed deer and elk had been tested for chronic wasting disease and all test results have been negative. “So far, so good,” said Dr. Dan O’Brien, a veterinarian at the DNR’s Rose Lake Research Center. “The test Read more
After a troubled decade, it’s time Ottawa and the provinces undertook a serious review of the game farming industry. More than 600 farmers in Alberta and more than 500 in Saskatchewan have put up tall wire fences and run domesticated elk and white-tailed deer in an effort to diversify their Read more
After a troubled decade, it’s time Ottawa and the provinces undertook a serious review of the game farming industry. More than 600 farmers in Alberta and more than 500 in Saskatchewan have put up tall wire fences and run domesticated elk and white-tailed deer in an effort to diversify their Read more
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Board of Animal Health today announced that an elk from a Stearns County farmed elk herd has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). The animal was one of 21 elk on a farm near Sauk Center that were being quarantined and tested due Read more
After testing more than 530 white-tailed deer for Chronic Wasting Disease in Texas, Texas Parks and Wildlife said all the tests have been negative. “We’re feeling pretty good about that,” said Executive Director Robert L. Cook. Nearly three times that many deer have been collected for testing, Cook said. Chronic Read more