Colorado Parks and Wildlife has selected specific deer hunts for mandatory chronic wasting disease testing in 2022 to inform how and where to fight the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease. Beginning in early October, CPW will be sending letters to Colorado rifle season deer hunters who have been selected for[Read More…]
Tag: Chronic Wasting Disease
CPW provides update on Chronic Wasting Disease
RBC | At the May CPW Commission meeting in Sterling, CPW Terrestrial Programs Supervisor Matt Eckert provided an update to the Commission on the agency’s chronic wasting disease (CWD) testing efforts. Eckert summarized the agency’s findings from mandatory CWD testing for the 2021-2022 hunting season as well as lessons learned[Read More…]
Hunting license draw opens March 1
RBC I Hunters hoping to draw a big-game license in Colorado in 2022 are urged to review the changes in license requirements and fees in the 2022 Colorado Big Game brochure prior to the March 1 opening of the primary draw application period (March 1 – April 5 at 8[Read More…]
Deer and elk hunters: keep an eye on your mailbox for chronic wasting disease mandatory testing letter
RBC I Colorado Parks and Wildlife has selected specific deer and elk hunts for mandatory chronic wasting disease testing in 2021 to inform how and where to fight the spread of CWD. Beginning in early October, CPW will be sending letters to Colorado rifle season hunters who have been selected[Read More…]
CPW discusses 2019 chronic wasting disease test results
[responsivevoice voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Listen to this”] At its virtual meeting last week, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission discussed the results from CPW’s mandatory Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) testing in 2019. CPW Terrestrial Programs Supervisor Matthew Eckert and State Wildlife Veterinarian Dr. Mary Wood provided an update to the[Read More…]
Mandatory CWD testing on deer this year
RBC | Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) will be conducting mandatory chronic wasting disease (CWD) testing during the 2019 hunting season in specific Game Management Units (GMU) as part of efforts to control the spread of CWD with its Colorado Chronic Wasting Disease Response Plan. Beginning in late September, CPW[Read More…]
CPW meeting in Craig April 30 to address CWD
RBC I Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s efforts to learn more about chronic wasting disease and how the agency will respond to increased prevalence will be the topic of a public meeting in Craig April 30.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife addressing Chronic Wasting Disease with response plan
RBC | The 2019 Colorado Big Game Brochure is out and there are plenty of regulation changes and new information for hunters to read up on in advance of the big game draw. One of the big challenges CPW wildlife managers are tackling this year is Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD).[Read More…]
CPW drafts CWD response plan
RBC | Last month Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) held meetings in Meeker and Craig explaining their increasing concern relative to the presence of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in the area mule deer herd. In some upriver Game Management Units, the prevalence rate as shown by tissue sampling via hunter harvest,[Read More…]
CWD advisory group meeting in Rifle July 25
– WHAT: Chronic Wasting Disease Advisory Committee – WHEN: July 25, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. – WHERE: Colorado Mountain College, 3695 Airport Road, Rifle By REED KELLEY [email protected] RBC | We reported last week on Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s increasing concern about the prevalence of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in[Read More…]
CPW seeks ways to control Chronic Wasting Disease
RBC | Maintaining wildlife health is a fundamental component of sound wildlife management and is a high priority in Colorado. That’s the framework of a series of Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) public information meetings about chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Meeker and Craig on Jun 26 and July 2. CPW[Read More…]
CPW invites public to CWD meetings
Special to the Herald Times MEEKER | Chronic wasting disease in Colorado will be the topic of discussion during two public opportunities with CPW’s Chronic Wasting Disease Advisory Group. The first in Meeker followed by a second meeting in Craig. The advisory group—comprised of CPW managers, CPW commissioners and a variety[Read More…]
