Tag: Chronic Wasting Disease

Could wolves help limit the spread of chronic wasting disease? Researchers in Yellowstone National Park are studying the “predator cleansing effect” to see what role wolves (Canis lupus) may play...

President Trump signed the America’s Conservation Enhancement Act (S. 3051) into law on Oct. 30, but expressed concern about a provision in the new law that creates a task force...

Wildlife managers who feed elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem to bolster the species’ numbers are facing a looming problem that may scuttle their effort to attract tourists and keep...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is offering up to $3.5 million for state and tribal governments to carry out research and management activities to...

Researchers may have found a way to use genetics to determine how susceptible deer and other cervids are to contracting chronic wasting disease. This offers hope that captive herd owners...

Chronic wasting disease has mostly affected North American wildlife, but when it appeared among reindeer in Norway in 2016, authorities took drastic action. Government officials ordered the eradication of the...

Students from The Wildlife Society’s University of North Dakota Student Chapter helped hunters deposit deer head samples to be tested for chronic wasting disease in Grand Forks when the state’s...

TWS Northeast Section Representative Paul Johansen testified to members of Congress last week about chronic wasting disease and ways the federal government can help state agencies combat it. The Chief...

After deadly chronic wasting disease appeared amid cervids in Norway in 2016, government officials decided to implement a supplemental feeding ban throughout the entire country. That prompted a team of...

A Texas appeals court has ruled that breeder deer are not private property, making them subject to state laws designed to limit the spread of chronic wasting disease from captive...