This could be one of the more important deer hunting seasons in Indiana’s history. The Department of Natural Resources and the Board of Animal Health are looking for something it doesn’t want to find — chronic wasting disease in wild deer herds. Wisconsin found the incurable and deadly disease in Read more
Wisconsin’s nine-day gun deer hunt opens Saturday under a cloud of uncertainty. The discovery of chronic wasting disease in 40 wild whitetail deer in south-central Wisconsin, and in captive deer on two game farms, has inalterably changed a tradition that lies at the heart of the state’s culture and identity. Read more
A Hunt Like No Other On the eve of the most important deer hunt in Wisconsin history, 88% of state residents surveyed who held deer hunting licenses last year are planning to head back into the woods this year, according to a Journal Sentinel poll. The poll suggests that, despite Read more
In the ongoing process of testing for chronic wasting disease, five mule deer bucks and a bull elk harvested outside the established area for CWD have tested positive. Four mule deer bucks and a bull elk taken by hunters in northwest Colorado and one mule deer buck taken by a Read more
CARNDUFF — Another wild mule deer is suspected of having Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Saskatchewan. The positive test result came from a mule deer shot this fall southeast of Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park near Stewart Valley. The sample from the two-year-old mule deer buck has been sent to the Read more
SPRINGFIELD, ILL. – The Illinois Department of Natural Resources, in cooperation with the Illinois Department of Agriculture, will collect tissue samples from approximately 4,000 hunter-harvested deer to test for the presence of chronic wasting disease in the Illinois deer herd. The sampling will occur at firearm deer hunting check stations Read more
REPORT OF AN EXTERNAL REVIEW PANEL COMPRISED OF: Dr. Markus J. Peterson, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Dr. Michael D. Samuel, National Wildlife Health Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Madison, Wisconsin Dr. Victor F. Nettles, Jr., Wildlife Health Associates, Dillon, Montana Dr. Gary Wobeser, Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre, University Read more
A test done in Saskatoon indicates there may be another case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a wild deer in Saskatchewan. The suspicious case was found in a two-year-old mule deer buck taken this fall southeast of Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park near Stewart Valley. Earlier this month the province’s Read more
BIG PINE KEY — In January, the state will relocate some Key deer to more southern Keys in order to protect them from threats such as humans, hurricanes and a disease related to mad cow disease. Chronic wasting disease, a brain disease of antlered animals found in the western United Read more
Deer hunters submitted about 3,500 samples for chronic wasting disease tests during the first weekend of Minnesota’s firearms deer season, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. The DNR intends to collect between 5,000 and 6,000 total samples at selected registration stations across the state as part of an Read more