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With the archery hunting season just beginning and the nine-day gun hunting deer season starting Nov. 20, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources officials asked hunters to help them collect data to track the disease's spread.
Together, we can keep Wisconsin’s hunting tradition going strong for future generations. Follow public health guidance to stop the spread of COVID-19. Test your deer for CWD and properly dispose of your deer carcass.
"If we don't get out ahead of this, there won't be a hunting industry." — Mark Zabel, associate director, Prion Research Center at Colorado St…
Gov. Tony Evers, who controls the department, hasn't offered any new CWD strategies. The governor has said he wants to see if research conducted in other states yields breakthroughs.
Midwestern wildlife officials wrapped up what was hailed as an unprecedented conference on chronic wasting disease Thursday without coming up with any new tactics.
The Wisconsin Conservation Congress plans to ask outdoor lovers this spring whether state wildlife officials should again offer bounties for deer infected with chronic wasting disease to get a better read on the disease’s prevalence and control its spread.
The committee voted 6-4 to eliminate limits on moving deer carcasses, but maintained new fencing requirements.
10-acre deer farm quarantined after CWD found in 15-year-old doe that lived there
Patrick Durkin's Sunday column "CWD expansion going unchecked in Wisconsin" really points out the danger of electing anti-science, business-ca…
One of the researchers says people should stop buying mineral, or salt, licks to attract or bait deer because they may be helping to spread the fatal brain disease.
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources board members pressured agency leaders this week to use softer terminology to describe counties affected by chronic wasting disease, saying the current wording paints such a dire picture that deer hunters might go elsewhere.
As hunters take to the woods weekend and worry about Chronic Wasting Disease in the deer herd, the state should also try to address another ch…
The two 4-year-old bucks with CWD came from a breeding farm in Mineral Point that has 110 white-tailed deer. The deer had shown no clinical signs of the disease.
Many hunters are sharpening up their skills in anticipation of deer season. But the news will likely carry plenty of scary stories about chron…
Dear Editor: Europeans began settling Wisconsin in the early 1800s, and at the time as many as 3,000 to 5,000 wolves may have existed in the a…
The UW-Madison veterinary laboratory says hunters should heed a study showing a primate for the first time was infected by eating venison.
Rational people beyond Wisconsin’s borders are issuing new warnings while trying to advance science’s understanding of CWD.
The DNR’s latest press release basically dismisses CWD’s ever-worsening spread by noting most sick deer came from Wisconsin’s “southern farmland zone.”
The Department of Natural Resources' five-year Southwest Wisconsin deer and predator study is underway, starting with animal capture and release of deer, coyotes and bobcats.
LAS VEGAS – Wildlife-agency biologists, national conservation groups and hunting-industry representatives who met Wednesday at the annual Shooting, Hunting and Outdoors Trade Show agreed chronic wasting disease poses a major threat to the nation’s elk, moose, mule deer and white-tailed deer herds.
Julie Mitchell of Madison is this week’s You Toon winner.
The state's monitoring of the deer disease doesn't match with health recommendations.
Low Risks, High Consequences: CWD Testing And Human Health
Disease Monitoring Doesn't Match With Health Recommendations
No CWD in humans has been reported, but experts advise against eating tainted venison because disease prions are unpredictable.
Tougher action is needed to thin the herd around infection outbreaks or the deadly disease spread will continue to quicken, a researcher says.