CWD Strikes Again: Minnesota Deer Farm Quarantined by State
In yet another case of chronic wasting disease among captive deer facilities, the Minnesota Board of Animal Health has hit a deer farm in Crow Wing County with a quarantine order. The facility, which is home to 33 mule deer and 100 whitetail deer, has been ordered not to allow either the entrance or […]
Herd of 41 Elk Perish After Falling Through Ice
Officials from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) were called to the Brownlee Reservoir roughly 40 miles east of Baker City, Oregon earlier in the week in an attempt to salvage members of an elk herd that had ventured onto the unstable ice. Sheila Hocker of Richland reported the incident Tuesday morning […]
Results from Two Cases of CWD in Arkansas Reversed
The opening weekend of Arkansas’ modern gun season revealed 28 new cases of chronic wasting disease in the state’s white-tailed deer population. Across 25 sampling stations, samples were collected from volunteer hunters within the state’s 10-county CWD Management Zone. Two new Arkansas counties were additionally affected by the disease, one being Yell County, which […]
Colorado OK’s Plan to Kill Mountain Lions & Bears to Aid Mule Deer Populations
In an effort to inform predator harvest and management decisions, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) adopted a mule deer strategy back in 2014 that identified predation as one of the main limiting factors affecting Colorado’s mule deer population. As part of the plan, researchers turned to the Piceance Basin, a geological structural basin in […]
Elk in Texas Panhandle Tests Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease
The first known elk to test positive for the degenerative chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the state of Texas was confirmed last week. The elk was discovered during enhanced surveillance at one of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s (TPWD) Panhandle Containment Zone check stations. Currently speaking, successful hunters who harvest a mule deer, elk or […]
Three Deer Found in the Belly of Everglades Python
The impact of non-native species such as Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades has long been studied and discussed and a recent find has once again turned the public attention to the impact these carnivorous reptiles have on the eco-system. The snake was originally found back in June of 2013 by snake-wrangler Bobby Hill of […]
Yellowstone Grizzly Bears Inch Closer to Delisting
A future conservation strategy was approved by wildlife officials, aiming to remove the Yellowstone grizzly bear population from the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The 2016 Conservation Strategy for the Grizzly Bear in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem was drafted in mid November and recently approved by the Yellowstone Ecosystem Subcommittee (YES) of the Interagency Grizzly […]
Mule Deer Falls in the Streets of Butte, $1k Reward for Information Offered
A 5 x 5 mule deer buck laid in the streets of Uptown Butte, Montana Monday morning sporting a fresh bullet wound to his side. Law enforcement officers found the buck early Monday morning collapsed by the gutter on North Main Street east of the Original Mine Yard. As it is illegal to discharge […]
Wolf Management Officials Receive Death Threats Over Wolf Control
After 12 cattle depredations in only six weeks, Washington’s Profanity Peak wolf pack has been qualified for removal under the state’s lethal take policy. As the news of the pack’s imminent doom broke, opponents took to the defensive the only way they know how: by issuing death threats. Despite the fact that the potential […]
USFWS Reopens Comment Period on Delisting Yellowstone Grizzlies
Published in March of this year, officials proposed the delisting of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and have since reinstated an extended comment period about the proposal. Now occupying more than 22,500 square miles of the Yellowstone Ecosystem, the grizzly bear population has rebounded in great numbers. In 1975, estimates pegged the […]