Although CWD has not been found in Tennessee, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) will hold biological data collection checking stations locally this weekend. Local checking stations will be held at Jeff’s Market, Highway 64 East; Parsley’s #2, located on Highway 231 North; Fritz’s Market, Highway 431 North; and Coldwater Read more
BARNEVELD, Wisconsin (Reuters) — In a gravel clearing beside the Eagle Mart Stop-N-Go gas station, about 20 men and a few women, some in flannel shirts and yellow rubberized coveralls, spent a recent weekend sawing the heads off hundreds of Wisconsin deer shot by hunters. Hunting season began early in Read more
Deer hunters submitted about 500 additional samples for chronic wasting disease tests during the second weekend of Minnesota’s firearms deer season, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. The firearms deer season began Nov. 9. The DNR estimates that it has collected about 4,000 of the 5,000 to 6,000 Read more
With wildlife managers throughout North America concerned about chronic wasting disease (CWD), the Pennsylvania Game Commission, in cooperation with the state Agriculture Department, is putting in place a massive monitoring effort to ensure that the disease is not present in the Commonwealth’s wild deer and elk. “Currently, there are no Read more
Handling heads is not how most people make their living. But, for local Wildlife Technician Dwight Dobson, it’s just another day at the office. He is part of a province wide effort to control Chronic Wasting Disease. To help facilitate that, the Department of Environment is requesting that all hunters Read more
Sioux Falls is creating space in its landfill for deer and elk carcasses a week after a federal agency ruling that prevents rendering companies from collecting the remains. “Four thousand carcasses are waiting to be disposed of,” Lyle Johnson, the city’s public works director, informed City Council members Monday. Last Read more
HOT SPRINGS — Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been found in an elk in Wind Cave National Park, superintendent Linda L. Stoll announced Monday. Park staff recently discovered a 5-year-old elk exhibiting symptoms of the contagious brain disease. The elk was killed and brain tissue samples were analyzed at the Read more
The spread of lethal chronic-wasting disease to a third species of wildlife in Canada has scientists calling for a wide-ranging inquiry into elk- and deer-farming industry. The highly contagious so-called mad-elk disease was found last week in a white-tailed deer on an Alberta game farm. Over the past two years, Read more
The spread of lethal chronic-wasting disease to a third species of wildlife in Canada has scientists calling for a wide-ranging inquiry into elk- and deer-farming industry. The highly contagious so-called mad-elk disease was found last week in a white-tailed deer on an Alberta game farm. Over the past two years, Read more
A deer harvested in Deer Hunt Area 78, on the western slope of the Snowy Range, south of Saratoga and one harvested in Deer Hunt Area 82 on the western slope of the Sierra Madres tested positive for chronic wasting disease. “The deer were harvested outside the area where CWD Read more