| Game and Fish Collecting Deer Samples |
| 11/2/2009 |
| As deer hunting season begins later this week, the North Dakota Game and Fish Department is looking for extra help from hunters. Officials are collecting harvested game to test for chronic wasting disease and bovine tuberculosis in deer from Western and Northeastern North Dakota. The goal is to prevent both diseases from infecting deer herds, a problem which some states have already encountered. "In some of the states, in the Western states, in Wyoming and the endemic areas, it`s reducing the population in places. And it`s also reducing the animal health. One of the big things in some other states, they`ve gone in and try to actually eradicate all of the deer in the endemic areas and try to remove all the deer, to try and stop the spread of that disease, and we hope we never have to get to that stage," says wildlife biologist Kent Luttschwager. For a complete list of drop-off locations, visit the Game and Fish website at http://www/gf.nd.gov. The department will be collecting game until the end of deer hunting season. |
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