State wildlife officials are upping local harvest quotas for whitetail deer to combat a recent outbreak of chronic wasting disease in the Flathead Valley. Officials first received reports of a sickly ...

The most recent case — a red deer from a deer farm in Wayne County — was confirmed by a USDA lab this spring after it was ...

Research by the Pennsylvania Game Commission and Penn State University discovers the truth about deer movements during rut, ...

Chronic wasting disease is a prion disease that affects white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk, moose and reindeer, according to the Centers for Disease Control. It has been found in the United States ...

LDWF schedules public hearings to discuss expanding the CWD Control Area in Louisiana due to rising deer infections.

Maryland wildlife officials say chronic wasting disease (CWD) is spreading again—this time into a new part of the state. The ...

Wright and Sherburne counties are included in an eight-county area that’s been added to a deer feeding and attractant ban ...

That’s really our biggest concern: it spreading to areas we don’t know about.” As of this year, Washington has documented five confirmed cases of chronic wasting disease within state boundaries.

Scientists estimate that when chronic wasting disease prevalence reaches between 7% and 13%, elk populations will decline. Prevalence in western Wyoming elk is thought to be less than 1%.

Chronic wasting disease has been associated with population declines in free-ranging deer populations, and federal agencies have already spent more than $300 million on CWD efforts since the turn ...

The Minnesota DNR has added eight counties to a deer feeding and attractant ban to reduce the risk of chronic wasting disease spread after CWD was detected in wild deer ...