Tag: white-tailed deer

The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that state conservation officials have the authority to regulate captive cervid herds in order to prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease, which first...

Pennsylvania wildlife officials have confirmed the appearance of chronic-wasting disease in three captive white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) at two deer farms. One farm, in Blair County, where the disease hadn’t...

White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) fawns have a better chance of avoiding mortality on agricultural land than they do in forests, according to new research. In a study published in The...

The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is currently accepting public comments on proposed updates to the Chronic Wasting Disease Herd Certification Program standards. The proposed changes are intended...

Mississippi wildlife officials have documented the first case of chronic wasting disease in the state, making it the 24th state to report the presence of the deadly neurological disease. A...

Since wildlife managers first detected chronic wasting disease among southern Michigan’s wild deer populations in 2015, they have detected 11 more cases, all appearing in a westerly direction from the...

Researchers recently looked back about a century ago to determine how sika deer made their way from their native home on Japan’s Yakushima Island to Dorchester County, Md., with the...

In parts of the southeastern U.S. where coyotes prey heavily on white-tailed deer fawns, wildlife managers should restrict adult doe harvest, a recent study suggests. Using data stemming from research...

Although animal welfare groups have backed sterilizing female deer — an experimental alternative to traditional methods of decreasing overabundant deer populations such as hunting or hiring sharpshooters to cull animals...

On Oct. 13, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the Columbian white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus leucurus), a rare subspecies found in the Pacific Northwest, has been downlisted from...