Comparing COVID-19 in humans and CWD in deer
Solid science-based discussions needed in both arenas to avoid hyperbole.
Deer
In Pennsylvania, buck harvest up 10 percent, overall harvest highest in 15 years
The percentage of older bucks in the 2019-20 deer harvest remained amazingly high. About 66 percent of the bucks taken by hunters were at least 2½ years old. The remainder were 1½ years old.
5 workers at Michigan wildlife lab get latent form of TB
It was the department’s “working assumption” that the workers got TB from infected deer “but we can’t say for sure.”
Pennsylvania Game Commission’s proposal for rifle season is controversial
Many not pleased with PGC’s proposal to reinstate statewide concurrent anterless and antlered season.
New deer feeding bans in effect as part of CWD prevention efforts
The DNR will expand deer feeding bans in central Minnesota starting today due to additional discoveries of chronic wasting disease in captive deer in late 2019.
Do camaraderie and tradition help drive Wisconsin gun deer hunting interests?
And isn’t there something gun deer hunting can take from sturgeon spearing to at least attempt to hold interest, anticipation, camaraderie, excitement, and traditions?
Iowa deer kill numbers take a tumble
Hunters take about 14,000 less whitetails in 2019 than the previous year. Wildlife experts say that while there are a number of factors that likely contributed to the decline, the most prominent is the outbreak of hemorrhagic disease that killed thousands of deer across the state.
QDMA 2020 Whitetail Report: record-low yearling buck harvest
National percentage of yearling bucks in the total antlered buck harvest fell to 30%, the lowest ever recorded.
In Iowa, CWD found in four new counties
New test results bring the total number of counties in Iowa where wild deer have tested positive to eight.
Two weeks of concurrent deer season on the horizon in Pennsylvania
Concurrent deer seasons give hunters a choice and increase the odds for success for those with limited time to hunt.
Ohio deer hunters end season on a high note
Hunters in all seasons top last year’s total by more than 10,000.
Board OKs 6 deer-related questions on possible rule changes for spring hearings
NRB would add 10 days to gun deer season, shorten the early crossbow season and strike the December antlerless deer season.
Thoughts on neighboring Pennsylvania’s Saturday deer opener
A Saturday opening day has its merits as well as its drawbacks, but if more hunters can get to go, then why not? For this hunter, keeping it to a Monday would prove far less frenzied.
DNR: Total 2019 Wisconsin deer kill down 14 percent
Total license sales also dipped, from 806,442 to 794,712. More hunters turned in their deer for sampling for chronic wasting disease, though; the DNR collected 17,828 samples statewide compared to 17,200 in 2018.
For first time, CWD crops up in wild deer in Marathon County
Also, the DNR confirms that a wild deer tested positive in Buffalo Township in Marquette County – the second wild deer that tested positive for CWD in the county. The first detection was during the previous deer season.
Eight potential deer hunting rule changes OK’d for public vote
Natural Resources Board members looking for shorter crossbow season, adding 10 days to gun season, statewide deer baiting ban and more.
DNR extensive sampling of wild deer in ’19: CWD remains biggest concern in S.E. Minnesota
But CWD was not detected in wild deer in central and north-central Minnesota.
Some deer hunting traditions should be reconsidered as regs are re-written
State now in position to make some sensible changes to deer hunting regulations.
Hoping for justice in deer torture case
Wheels of justice have turned slowly in the case of 2 teens who tortured buck, but slow justice can be good justice.
Two charged in videotaped ‘torture’ of wounded whitetail deer
Video of the November attack circulated quickly on social media and generated outrage, along with pressure on investigators to solve the case.
Investigation leads to additional CWD positive deer on Pine County farm
The ongoing chronic wasting disease investigation of farms tied to the Douglas County detection first reported in December 2019 has led to a CWD-confirmed doe on a Pine County farm. The herd in Pine County was being investigated because it provided animals to the Douglas County herd in the past, including the CWD positive doe that initiated the disease investigation.
Tennessee targets deer disease with $1 million carcass incinerator
Processors and hunters can use the incinerator to dispose of deer from high-risk counties and counties where animals have tested positive for the disease in southwest Tennessee.
Preserving the memories: affordable options exist
A good taxidermy mount can be an expensive option, but for this blogger, there’s a more practical and far less expensive way to make the memory last.
Ohio hunters come home with a bang in second gun season
Almost 4,000 more deer killed this year compared to last year.
DNR enacts temporary ban on movement of farmed deer in Minnesota
Thirty-day prohibition follows positive deer on Douglas County farm.
End of a hunting era?
Hunting season was a bit more difficult than in years past all the way around. For the regular Southern Zone big game season opener, our traditional trip to Steuben County saw limited participation from our group of hunters. Life seemed to get in the way this year as illness, school and work impacted a brother, my daughter, two nephews and…
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