The LDWF is reminding hunters returning from out-of-state hunts with harvested deer or other cervids about the state’s cervid carcass importation ban.[…]
The LDWF has coordinated with Louisiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory to provide testing on harvested deer for the presence of CWD.[…]
The 2019-20 Natural deer urine regulations says it’s legal to use products from manufacturers involved with the ATA program.[…]
In an effort to stop the spread of chronic wasting disease, the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission modified a law on deer-urine products.[…]
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LWFC) passed a declaration of emergency that modifies the deer urine ban for the 2019-20 hunting season.[…]
Scientists dispute findings by Dr. Frank Bastian, an LSU researcher, that he has discovered a cure for chronic wasting disease, coined by popular media as “Zombie Deer Disease.”[…]
Unless you have been holed up in a cave with no way of communicating for the past three or four months, you are well aware that a buck discovered on Jan. 25 in Issaquena County, Miss. tested positive for chronic wasting disease.[…]
I had something else in mind originally for this column, but the recent happenings regarding the finding of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a Mississippi deer is more important than anything else.[…]
Initial sampling efforts for chronic wasting disease in Northeast Louisiana’s deer herd have not turned up any positive results for the disease, according to a news release from the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.[…]
Even though no cases of chronic wasting disease have been found in Louisiana, the state is stepping up preventive efforts to monitor Louisiana’s native white-tailed deer population for the incurable brain infection.[…]