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The Pennsylvania Game Commission urges hunters in Disease Management Areas to have their deer tested for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) and to consider participating in a new extended antlerless ...
In total, 29 of the 30 bull elk hunters were successful and 31 of the 42 cow elk hunters, for a total of 60 elk harvested during the general season, which ran Oct. 30-Nov. 4. All elk must be taken ...
All elk licenses will be awarded by lottery on July 27 at the Elk Expo held at the Elk Country Visitor Center and each application for the three seasons costs $11.97. Hunters can enter all three ...
Chronic wasting disease (CWD), sometimes called zombie deer disease, is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) affecting deer.TSEs are a family of diseases thought to be caused by misfolded proteins called prions and include similar diseases such as BSE (mad cow disease) in cattle, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, and scrapie in sheep. [2]
Elk that have contracted the disease begin to show weight loss, changes in behavior, increased watering needs, excessive salivation and urinating and difficulty swallowing, and at an advanced stage, the disease leads to death.
The National Elk Refuge in Jackson, Wyoming asserts that the intensity of the winter feeding program affects the spread of brucellosis more than the population size of elk and bison. [58] Since concentrating animals around food plots accelerates spread of the disease, management strategies to reduce herd density and increase dispersion could ...
The Pennsylvania Game Commission approved the number of antlerless doe licenses and elk licenses for the 2022-23 hunting year.
So-called “chronic wasting disease” (CWD)—colloquially referred to as “zombie deer disease,” a similar condition that affects cervids like deer, elk, reindeer, and moose—has been ...