Hunt Begins for CWD-Infected Deer & Elk in Arkansas
Eight teams of hunters armed with high-powered rifles will descend on a five-mile-wide capsule-shaped area between Ponca and Pruitt, Arkansas after an elk and a deer tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease. The confirmation of the presence of the disease is a first for the state of Arkansas and officials want desperately to contain it. […]
Arkansas Game & Fish Commission Confirms CWD in Elk
In a press release this week, the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission confirmed that an elk herd located near the town of Pruitt, Arkansas tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease. The infected elk displayed no symptoms of the disease at the time of death, but later samples from the animal’s lymph nodes and brain stem […]