Last Updated: Wednesday, May 9, 2007 5:05 PM CDT
Outdoors : DNR seeks help with deer health check-up
Spooner - The Department of Natural Resources is seeking the public's help in a “Deer health check-up” in northern Wisconsin. Wildlife officials are asking that anyone who sees or knows of a recently killed deer along a highway to call it in to their local sheriff's department. This is the normal operating system and it will increase the chances of collecting the deer head for this testing program.
“Our goal at DNR is a healthy deer herd. This year,” said DNR's Northern Region Wildlife Supervisor, Mike Zeckmeister, “we are sampling deer from every county in our Northern Region as part of state on-going CWD (Chronic Wasting Disease) surveillance.”
To date, the disease has only been found in the known area of south central Wisconsin.
DNR has been testing large sections of the state outside the CWD zone to confirm the disease is still confined to free ranging deer in that area. CWD was not found in a similar check last year in 18 western counties of the state.
As part of the health surveillance, deer will also be checked for Bovine Tuberculosis that was recently found in Minnesota deer. The health check is being conducted in Ashland, Barron, Rusk, Taylor, Washburn, Douglas, Bayfield, Iron, Sawyer, Oneida, Vilas, Lincoln, Polk, Price, Burnett, Forest, Florence and Langlade counties.
Zeckmeister added that we will be asking bow and gun deer hunters to turn in heads during the fall 2007 deer hunting season.
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