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Cody area hunters share concerns about CWD in mule deer community meetings April 23, 2025 Wyoming Public Radio
... Mule deer populations in some parts of Wyoming have been declining for decades... Corey Class, Wildlife Management Coordinator who works out of the department’s Cody office, said the top concern in his region was chronic wasting disease (CWD)...
Wildlife officials confirm 2nd case of fatal disease in Georgia deer April 23, 2025 FOX 5 Atlanta on MSN
... a second deer has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a fatal neurological condition affecting deer, elk, and moose. A previous case had been found in Lanier County in January - just 400 yards away from where the second case was confirmed..,
Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Commission proposes regulation changes April 23, 2025 Messenger-Inquirer
... Following the 2024-2025 hunting season, no new CWD cases have been found to date in Kentucky’s wild deer and elk from among the more than 9,000 samples tested statewide. To date, CWD has been confirmed in one wild deer in Ballard County (2023) and one fenced deer operation in Breckinridge County (2024) ..,
Woman pleads guilty to misdemeanors for her role in the illegal poaching of 100+ deer April 22, 2025 Wisconsin, WTAQ News Talk
... misdemeanor counts of illegally shining deer and to intentionally contributing to the delinquency of a child. A count of resisting a conservation warden was dismissed ...
Pennsylvania Game Commission to spray 38,000 acres of forests to protect wildlife from spongy moths April 21, 2025 WPXI on MSN.com
... “Oaks are the main target of spongy moths, and they also provide the best and most reliable wildlife foods,” Weiss said. “This loss of acorn availability across such a potentially large area can have extremely detrimental impacts on wildlife populations ranging from chipmunks and squirrels all the way up to deer and bears.” ...
New Deer Hunting Regulations Proposed in Mississippi April 21, 2025 Gun News Daily
...Key changes include clarifying the rules surrounding cased vehicles for transporting firearms and allowing the use of tracking dogs for recovering wounded deer, emphasizing the commitment to both safety and the humane treatment of animals...
Here’s how mule deer fawns and elk calves have fared through mid-March April 21, 2025 Idaho Fish and Game
... 67% of collared fawns and 93% of collared calves were still alive, and here's how that compares with recent years:
82% fawns and 93% calves in 2023-24
46% fawns and 86% calves in 2022-23
63% fawns and 85% calves in 2021-22
71% fawns and 85% calves in 2020-21
73% fawns and 84% calves in 2019-20
58% fawns and 84% calves in 2018-19
69% fawns and 72% calves in 2017-18
More than 240 cases of chronic wasting disease found in Missouri deer April 21, 2025 FOX 2 on MSN
... More than 240 new cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) have been confirmed in deer across 35 counties in Missouri ... The positive CWD cases found across the state stem from testing more than 36,000 deer during the past hunting season and post-season removal efforts, with most cases being deer submitted by hunters during the 2024–25 deer-hunting season..,
Big guns could return to Pittsburgh parks to help reduce the population April 20, 2025 Pennsylvania, New Castle News
... On a recent day in Riverview Park on Pittsburgh’s North Side, there’s no sign of deer. Federally sanctioned sharpshooters have made sure of that... “This is how we wanted it to be,” said Alison Keating ... The residents’ battle began when a herd decimated Mardi Isler’s front yard...
Latest Washington big game hunting regulations and special hunt applications now available April 18, 2025 Nisqually Valley News
... Prohibiting baiting and the use of scent lures derived from cervid urine or glandular materials for hunting statewide. Banning feeding deer, elk or moose statewide Finally, the rules include mandatory CWD testing of harvested and salvaged cervids in any WDFW region where CWD has been detected ...
Governor signs bill on hunting deer with bait in North Dakota April 17, 2025 News From The States
... North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong has signed a bill that forbids state wildlife managers from restricting the use of bait for hunting deer on private property. Senate Bill 2137 ...
Bill that would open MDI to deer hunting draws mixed response April 17, 2025 Maine, Bangor Daily News
... changing deer hunting rules currently in place on Mount Desert Island since the 1930s ... the bans on deer hunting in Mount Desert Island towns can’t be lifted without each town indicating that it was in favor...
Death of expertise hits North Dakota deer hunting April 16, 2025 InForum
... The bill forbids Game and Fish — made up of, you know, experts — from instituting baiting bans on private property in the state, a practice the department says it uses to mitigate the spread of diseases in game populations... CWD ... spreads through close contact, which is why biologists say baiting should not be allowed...
Siskiyou County Sheriff sends letter to California legislature, CDFW to address the potential danger posed by the expanding wolf population April 16, 2025 California, Action News Now
... The decline in natural prey like deer and elk is pushing wolves closer to human activity, raising the risk of encounters. This trend is unsettling for many local residents. Current California laws leave those who act in self-defense against wolves in a legal gray area...
Trio illegally killed at least 19 deer, left animals to rot: Pa. Game Commission April 16, 2025 Pennsylvania, PennLive on MSN
... hunting illegally at night ... using a spotlight to see and shooting the deer from a vehicle ... pay $3,000 in fines, $5,000 in replacement costs ...
CWD, Utah officials express concern amid uptick in Wyoming zombie deer disease April 15, 2025 ABC4 Utah on MSN
... Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) ... While the numbers started low, a report from the 2021-22 fiscal year showed only eight positive cases. Stout said the division has had 82 positive cases since July 2024..,
Pa. Game Commission approves 1.3 million antlerless tags, extends firearms opportunities April 15, 2025 GoErie.com on MSN
... approved 126,000 more antlerless deer permits than last year bringing the total number across the state to 1,312,000 ...
ODFW proposing to change boundaries of mule deer hunts starting in 2026 April 15, 2025 Oregon, NewsBreak
... Due to declining mule deer populations, a trend ODFW attributes to multiple factors including predation, climate change, and habitat loss and degradation, Oregon’s 2024 mule deer plan calls on the agency to use herd ranges, rather than the current wildlife management units, as the basis for managing the species ...
Six new counties had positive cases of chronic wasting disease, DNR says April 15, Iowa, The Gazette
... DNR recorded 135 individual positive detections through the 2024-25 surveillance season ... During the 2023-24 surveillance season, the DNR recorded 128 positive cases, up from 96 the previous season, 52 the season before that, and 21 in 2020-21..,
Oregon wolf population reaches record 200 for first time since 1990s April 14, 2025 KNDU
... The state's wolf population has reached 200 for the first time since the 1990s ... The wolf population in Oregon grew by 15 percent last year, marking the most significant increase in five years..,
Who owns Alabama's deer? Lawmakers, conservation officials clash over proposed bill April 14, 2025 Yellowhammer News
... HB509 ... would also restrict the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) from testing, killing, or limiting the movement of those animals due to disease, except in limited circumstances... The department’s concern centers on the potential spread of Chronic Wasting Disease ...
New GMO soybeans may deter deer, reduce crop loss April 14, 2025 Tennessee, Farm Progress
... plant breeders inserted a gene into wild-type soybean plants that allowed the plant to produce trypsin inhibitors... Inhibiting trypsin in a deer’s endocrine system leads to digestive upset. “It basically gives them an upset stomach and then they don’t like to feed on those soybeans,” ...
HAT Working Group final recommendations advance to negotiated rulemaking April 14, 2025 Idaho Fish and Game
... The public will be able to provide their input on all the proposed rule changes during the negotiated rulemaking process. ... the Hunting and Advanced Technology (HAT) Working Group ... recommends that it be unlawful for any person to use any aircraft (including drones, helicopter, and fixed-wing aircraft) to spot, locate, or aid in the taking of
any big game ungulates from July 1 through December 31 ...
Mountain Lions Blamed For Killing More Deer Than They Actually Do, Hunters Say April 14, 2025 Wyoming, Cowboy State Daily
... it’s widely assumed that an adult mountain lion kills about a deer per week...a recent study that followed several mountain lions in New Mexico and kept track of what they were preying on. The results seemed to indicate that the mountain lions were killing relatively few deer. As far as large prey, they seemed to skew more toward feral horses and elk. And the mountain lions also killed more beavers than just about anything else ..,
Officials secure millions in funding for bridge that will be put to surprising use April 13, 2025 Idaho, The Cool Down
... the Idaho Transportation Department has secured nearly $21 million in grant funding to build three highway underpasses on U.S. Route 30. The underpasses will be located near the Wyoming border and along a regional mule deer migratory route....
Video Below: 25,000 Deer KILLED in One Winter…UNBELIEVABLE Wildlife MIGRATION in Wyoming April 12, 2025 The killer winter of 2022-2023 almost wiped out the famous Wyoming Range mule deer herd. Only 4,000 deer survived the brutal conditions. Join Ike Eastman in 2025 to explore how this population is faring today. - April 12, 2025
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) prion detection in environmental and biological samples from a taxidermy site and nursing facility, and instruments used in surveillance activities 2025 - Science of The Total Environment, 2025
... CWD prions were identified in a taxidermy and deer nursing facility. Contaminated samples included waters, soils, dermestid beetles, domestic flies and a dumpster. Surgical instruments used to collect deer samples can get contaminated with CWD prions. Our results suggest that taxidermy practices actively contribute in the spreading of CWD...
Hunters score victory with bill that overrules North Dakota Game and Fish policy April 11, 2025 North Dakota Monitor
... Charlie Bahnson, wildlife veterinarian for Game and Fish, said in written testimony that chronic wasting disease is still rare in North Dakota, but the department needs the feeding restrictions as a management tool. But Rep. Matt Ruby, R-Minot, argued that the bans have no effect on the spread of the disease that can be fatal in deer. ... North Dakota has had 122 positive tests of chronic wasting disease in deer since 2009 ..,
City of Pittsburgh turns to USDA sharpshooters to deal with deer population in city neighborhoods March 12, 2025 Pennsylvania, CBS News on MSN
... bow hunters have only stabilized the herd, and so the city has now turned to sharpshooters... the city plans to use both bow hunters in the fall and early winter, and sharpshooters again next spring... Since the beginning of its deer culling, the city has harvested 440 deer ...
Chronic wasting disease detected in four additional Illinois counties April 11, 2025 Illinois Department of Natural Resources
... Chronic wasting disease, or CWD, has been detected in Putnam, Marshall, Adams, and Peoria counties ... Adams County is the first documented case recorded outside of the leading edge of the CWD endemic region..,
House Bill 568 aims to address the impact of nonresident hunting in Montana April 10, 20225 ABC Fox Montana
... The bill would direct Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) to conduct a two-year study on the impact of nonresident hunting. Montana has seen a significant increase in nonresident hunting licenses. From 58,254 in 2019, the number rose to 85,228 in 2023 ... "Currently in eastern Montana, our mule deer populations are at ten-year lows." ...
Ohio and Arkansas Deer Harvest Up Significantly April 10, 2025 Arkansas, American Hunter
... Arkansas hunters during the 2024-2025 season checked 199,863 deer. Although the raw data still needs to be analyzed, the preliminary results indicate an increase of nearly 4 percent over last year’s final harvest of 192,392..,
Hunter Harvest Report: Idaho deer and elk hunters go 3 for 3 in 2024 April 10, 2025 Idaho Fish and Game
... 2024—a year that granted Idaho’s deer and elk some much-needed reprieve from harsh winter weather ... While the winter of 2024 was indeed mild, wildlife managers in eastern Idaho still aimed to give mule deer does and fawns another year of limited antlerless hunting in hopes of bringing those numbers back up..,
Grant County biologists notice impacts to deer health due to wildfire April 10, 2025 Oregon, Elkhorn Media Group
... “The elk are looking about normal. The deer are actually in pretty poor shape… They came into winter in pretty poor shape as well due to the fires, and, also, about four-and-a-half weeks of hundred degree heat we had baked out the feed.” [ ODFW John Day District Assistant Wildlife Biologist Ryan Platte]
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Researchers thrilled after trail cameras capture critically endangered creature for first time in decades: 'We've found it' April 21, 2025 Vietnam, The Cool Down on MSN
... Trail cameras have helped researchers spot the endangered forest musk deer in northern Vietnam. This is the first time the forest musk deer has been spotted in Cao Bằng Province in decades ...
The Irish Elk: The Extinct Giant Deer That Once Roamed the Emerald Isle April 21, 2025 Discover WildScience on MSN
... The Irish elk, scientifically known as Megaloceros giganteus, was not just another deer—it was the largest deer to ever walk the earth. Standing up to seven feet tall at the shoulder, this animal dwarfed today’s largest deer species. Its most striking feature was the enormous antlers, which could span up to twelve feet from tip to tip...
Driver makes gut-wrenching roadside discovery that sparks emotional rescue April 20, 20225 New York, The Cool Down
... some deer — around 60,000-70,000 in New York annually — will find their way into the pathways of unsuspecting motorists ... She saw a doe lying in the middle of the road, clearly in shock ... With help from Smith, she got up and began walking...
These Jackdaws and Sika Deer Provide the Perfect Illustration of Wildlife Symbiosis April 19, 2025 United Kingdom, AOL
... these sika deer get help losing their winter coats and have professional tick-eaters at their disposal. The jackdaws are happy with the meal they’ve scavenged from the deer, while the deer are likely happy to be pest-free. The balance of this relationship proves that animals can evolve together, specifically when each one benefits...
Residents rally to save Bucky, the gentle deer visiting neighborhoods April 17, 2025 WTOV on MSN
... A video claiming Bucky was tied up prompted a response from the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources and a warrant was issued to the owner of the White Stallion property on Wednesday. Dean Elliott, owner of the While Stallion, said claims about Bucky being tied up are simply untrue... resident Don Nuzam asked. “There're people all across this state that have deer come in and they feed and pet them. Are you gonna arrest all of them? ...
Video Below: Michigan community saves deer trapped in a lake. People living along Lake St. Clair did a double take after seeing five deer swimming in the icy waters. Meanwhile, there was no easy way for the deer to get out of the lake until witnesses sprang into action in an attempt to save them, one of them being Danny Allen.
A hearing about whether ‘Baby’ the viral deer should be returned ends with rumors of his death April 3, 2025 Pennsylvania, The Philadelphia Inquirer on MSN
... an anticlimactic court hearing seeking a judge’s order for Baby’s return to the women who domesticated him ... now appears the very mortality of a deer ... has been brought into question ...
Wildlife officials try to save deer stuck in bucket April 1, 2025 Ohio, WJW-TV Cleveland on MSN
... officers and a veterinarian have gone out at least four times to try and tranquilize the deer to then remove the bucket. However, at last check, the efforts have been unsuccessful... Situations like this are not uncommon...
Owner fined after off-leash dog violently attacks deer in video: 'The current status unknown' March 29, 2025 Alberta, The Cool Down on MSN
... video, which gained attention after being shared on Reddit, shows the dog with its jaws locked onto the deer's antler as the deer attempts to run away... It ends with the dog owner throwing herself in the middle of the chaos as the unsettling tug-of-war continues ...
Idaho Fish and Game relocates cow and calf moose from University of Idaho March 28, 2025 Fish and Game News
... The pair had become increasingly habituated to the easy living conditions on campus, raising concerns about their safety and potential conflicts ... “Relocating wildlife is always a last resort, but in this case, it was the best decision for both the moose and the community,” ...
Video Below: Drone rescue: authorities in Green Lake, Wisconsin, used drones to herd three deer back to shore after the animals fell through the thin ice on top of the lake. March 24, 2025
Idaho Fish and Game relocates female moose and calf from community in Bingham County March 20, 2025 Idaho Fish and Game News
... Two of the moose, a female and her calf, were tranquilized and relocated from a Riverside neighborhood to a more remote location in southeast Idaho, away from neighborhoods and roads. Idaho Fish and Game was not able to capture the third moose, a yearling, because it retreated from the area where tranquilizing wasn't feasible ...
Video Below: Wisconsin deputies use drone to help save deer family from frozen water. March 19, 2025 WPLG
Deer with lid on neck successfully immobilized in Sheridan March 19, 2025 Wyoming, The Sheridan Press
... “Immobilizing an animal is a risky venture and should only be considered as a last resort,” said Sheridan Region Wildlife Coordinator Tim Thomas... The deer, an adult mule deer doe, was first reported to Game and Fish on Jan. 27...
Video Below: Watch a year, and 1775 elk, go by on a Cascade mountain highway wildlife bridge in 60 seconds. - Oregon, March 18, 2025
Nevada wildlife officials investigate illegal shooting of doe pregnant with twin fawns March 17, 2025 8 News NOW
... The doe — initially reported as sick or injured — died before the warden arrived... what appeared to be bullet entry and exit wounds in the doe’s left rear hip/back...
Green Lake deer rescue, drone used to help get animals to safety March 15, 2025 Wisconsin, Yahoo
... Three deer fell through the ice and were trying to go further into the lake ... It's unclear how long the deer were in the water ...
Cactus covered baby deer saved by AZGFD March 14, 2025 Arizona, 12news.com on MSN
... The young deer managed to become covered in spines from a cholla cactus... "He was able to chemically immobilize the fawn and began removing the cholla while the fawn’s mother watched from a distance," AZGFD said...
Iconic pet reindeer in Alaska falls mysteriously ill after someone tampers in his pen March 13, 2025 ABC News
... In early January, someone cut a huge hole in the fencing to gain entrance, spending about five minutes inside with Star before taking off... The next night ... a man wearing a scarf over his face sprayed something from two different cans into Star’s pen and twice hit the reindeer in the face with an unknown substance...
Man Thought He Was Saving a Stray Sheep—But This Rare Creature Changed Everything March 12, 2025 Texas, Indian Defence Review on MSN
... as he got closer, he realized he was staring at something far rarer—an albino fawn in distress... Realizing the fawn wouldn’t survive alone, Becker carefully placed the fragile animal in his car and drove it to the nearest wildlife rehabilitation center. Once there, experts confirmed that the fawn, estimated to be only a few months old, had been left behind ...
Video Below: A young moose in North Idaho was euthanized after taking up residency in Osburn. IDFG says the moose posed a risk to the community. - March 11, 2025
Off-leash dog owner fined $300 over dog's attack on deer in Banff March 11, 2025 Alberta, LakelandToday.ca
... the dog appears to be biting into the deer’s ear and grabbing it by an antler – and not letting go. A woman tries to get the dog off the deer, and is knocked to the ground in the process....
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