“Over time, a lot of hunters perceived the cure to be worse than the disease,” says Ben Beardmore, a social scientist at the Wisconsin DNR, who has studied hunter attitudes toward CWD management.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is calling for deer hunters to help collect deer samples during the upcoming gun seasons to monitor for chronic wasting disease. For the 23rd year, the DNR is ...

N ORTH DAKOTA — North Dakota hunters are encouraged to get their deer tested for chronic wasting disease (CWD), a slow-moving brain disease affecting deer, moose, and elk.

Chronic Wasting Disease, or CWD, is a fatal neurological disease that infects our cervid population. Once it's in an area it's hard to stop from spreading.

State wildlife officials are upping local harvest quotas for whitetail deer to combat a recent outbreak of chronic wasting ...

The DNR is offering a webinar on Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. for the public to learn more about chronic wasting disease.. As of Friday, the disease had been confirmed in eight deer in the state for 2024 ...

The DNR is partnering with deer hunters to test for chronic wasting disease and has county-specific sample collection goals, depending on the presence of CWD.

She encourages hunters in Disease Management Areas to get their deer tested for CWD. It’s a free service to hunters who place their deer heads in the Game Commission’s collection bins.

What hunters and farmers need to know about the fatal "zombie deer" disease: Ten deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease during the 2024-25 hunting season, mainly in Triad counties.

Hunters in southeastern Montana are being asked to assist the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks in a study to monitor the potential occurrence of chronic wasting disease, especially south of ...

“Learning year”: Hunters, wildlife officials navigate year of changes after Washington’s first detection of chronic wasting disease Dec. 27, 2024 Updated Sat., Dec. 28, 2024 at 2:58 p.m.

Chronic wasting disease was first detected in Iowa in 2013 and is fatal to infected deer, though it has not been shown to infect humans.. The DNR has tested more than 100,000 deer for the disease ...