Every Deer Hunter Can Take These Steps to Fight CWD.

There are many steps that every hunter can take now, whether or not they are already affected by the disease.

8 Ways Hunters in CWD Zones Can Fight for Healthy Deer

Keep Hunting · Test All of Your Deer · Do Not Fear For Your Health · Properly Dispose of Carcasses and any Positive Venison · Maintain Healthy Deer ...

5 Ways to Fight CWD - Deer & Deer Hunting

There isn't … unless killing off an entire species can be considered an option. Worse, I believe too many folks are caving to irrational fears ...

National Deer Association | Though chronic wasting disease (CWD ...

There are six very simple steps you can take as a deer hunter to help keep CWD out of your area or to discover its arrival as early as possible, ...

Smith: Five steps deer hunters can take to help reduce spread of CWD

Wisconsin hunters can help reduce the spread of chronic wasting disease by butchering their deer in. When the gun season opens Saturday, CWD ...

What Hunters Can Do to Stop Chronic Wasting Disease

Biologists strongly recommend that you consider adding disease prevention to your measures of success to ensure the future of our deer hunting ...

About CWD - Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

CWD is one of the most serious wildlife diseases facing state wildlife agencies such as the FWC. This disease could substantially reduce infected deer ...

About Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) - CDC

Strongly consider having the deer or elk tested for CWD before you eat the meat. If your deer is processed commercially, consider asking to have ...

What Every Deer Hunter Should Know About Chronic Wasting ...

To successfully manage CWD, it is critical that individual hunters understand the disease, current control efforts, and their responsibilities as stewards of ...

Chronic Wasting Disease

What hunters can do ... On a very basic level, hunters should follow any rules on the use of feeders, bait piles, or mineral lures in your state and hunting zone.

Disease precautions for hunters

When boning out the carcass, keep both the head and spine intact. Do not cut into the head of any antlered animal that showed abnormal behavior, even to remove ...

What Hunters Need to Know About CWD - HuntWise

5. Can You Eat Deer with CWD? ... Although no hunter has contracted CWD from consuming deer meat, it's not a good idea to take the risk. Health professionals ...

CWD: The Basics – CWD-INFO.ORG

To date, scientists have documented that CWD can have negative population effects in elk, mule deer, and white-tailed deer. Published models predict that CWD ...

Chronic Wasting Disease | Mississippi Department of Wildlife ...

Freezers will be at each site for depositing deer heads. Hunters should preserve the head with at least 6 inches of neck attached. Antlers may be removed before ...

Chronic Wasting Disease A Guide for Iowa's Hunters

The Iowa DNR is committed to fighting the spread of this 100% fatal disease. Harvesting infected deer is the best way to slow the spread. Infected deer do not ...

Hunters: Look for signs of illness in deer

Hunters play a very important role in reducing the spread of CWD by human behaviors. Some strategies hunters can use to reduce their risk of ...

Faced with chronic wasting disease, what's a hunting family to do?

It was September 2017, and I'd just read early results from a study showing that CWD can infect macaques. Related. The disease devastating deer ...

General CWD Frequently Asked Questions - NC Wildlife

What precautions can I take for handling, processing, disposing of deer in NC? · Do not eat any parts from a deer that appears sick. · Do not eat the eyes, brain, ...

CWD questions and answers - Minnesota DNR

Will any hunting or shooting of deer occur on private land as part of the DNR's CWD response?

Five ways to fight CWD in Arkansas

Jenn Ballard, state wildlife veterinarian for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, the best thing hunters can do to help fight the disease is ...