CWD

CWD Part Four

Prevention, Early Detection Control of CWD An Excerpt from Fall 2017 Fair Chase Michael D. Samuel – Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, Emeritus Professor, University of Wi...

CWD Part Three

An Allied Front An Excerpt from Summer 2017 Fair Chase Matt Dunfee – Program Manager, Wildlife Management Institute Until the late 1990s, most hunters, and even wildlife biologists,...

CWD Part Two

Looking Hard—Hardly Looking: Detecting Chronic Wasting Disease An Excerpt from Spring 2017 Fair Chase Michael W. Miller – Senior Wildlife Veterinarian, Colorado Division of Parks and W...

CWD Part One

An Excerpt from Winter 2016 Fair Chase Michael W. Miller – Senior Wildlife Veterinarian, Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife John R. Fischer – B&C Professional Member, Director an...

Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Management Act Enacted by Congress

Congressional action prior to the holidays enacted the Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Management Act as part of the final omnibus spending bill for 2023. The legislation formalizes a 3-year-old program that supports states and tribes in their efforts to control chronic wasting disease (CWD), an always fatal neurological disease affecting cervids like deer, elk, and moose.

Fighting the Spread of Chronic Wasting Disease

Seven timber companies and four conservation organizations are joining together to fight the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) among deer, elk, and other species of the deer family (known as “cervids”). The new CWD coalition will promote practices that help discover, manage, and mitigate the negative impacts of CWD.

Boone and Crockett Club Welcomes Introduction of Bipartisan Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Management Act in Senate

MISSOULA, Mont. April 28, 2022 – The Boone and Crockett Club thanks Senators Martin Heinrich and John Hoeven for introducing legislation to authorize federal funding to address chronic wasting disease (CWD) more holistically. The CWD Research and Management Act introduced today is a companion bill to H.R. 5608 that passed the U.S. House of Representatives with an overwhelming vote of 393-33 in early December last year. The bill authorizes $35 million each to research and management efforts and requires 75% of the management funding be directed to state and tribal wildlife agencies. If enacted, the bill will lay the groundwork to provide additional resources to states and tribes to proactively address CWD outbreaks and to manage this always-fatal disease of deer, elk, and moose.

Boone and Crockett Club Welcomes Introduction of Bipartisan Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Management Act

MISSOULA, Mont. (October 20, 2021) – The Boone and Crockett Club thanks Representatives Ron Kind (D-WI-3) and GT Thompson (R-PA-15) for yesterday’s introduction of legislation to authorize federal funding to address chronic wasting disease (CWD) more holistically. H.R. 5608 authorizes $35 million each to research and management efforts and requires 75% of the management funding be directed to state and tribal wildlife agencies.

Things You May Have Heard About CWD

An Excerpt from Summer 2018 Fair Chase David Hewitt, Charlie DeYoung, Randy DeYoung, Bill Eikenhorst, F. Butch Weckerly, Matthew Wagner, Ivan Castro-Arellano Download complete articl...

B&C Position Statement - Chronic Wasting Disease and Cervid Transport

Effective Date: December 7, 2018 Situational Overview The Boone and Crockett Club, the nation’s oldest hunter-conservationist organization, previously released a position statementregard...