PLEASE NOTE: An earlier version of this release did not specify this is a private land hunt only. This is being re-issued today to clarify.
Department of Natural Resources officials remind hunters that a special five-day, antlerless-only deer season begins Thursday in all of Zone 3, the southern Lower Peninsula, and in the six counties of [...]
September 18, 2008 | Posted in
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The nine-township area of northwest Kent County surrounding the captive deer facility that produced a deer with chronic wasting disease – Tyrone, Solon, Nelson, Sparta, Algoma, Courtland, Alpine, Plainfield and Cannon — is the surveillance zone.
What does that mean?
All deer killed by hunters in the surveillance zone must be taken to a Department of Natural [...]
September 18, 2008 | Posted in
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Based on data gathered during this past year, no evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) was detected in Massachusetts deer or moose. MassWildlife recently received results from a federally certified veterinary diagnostic laboratory that indicate that all the brain, lymph node, and tonsil samples taken from deer during last fall’s hunting season tested negative for [...]
July 3, 2008 | Posted in
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