Testing is expected to continue through January, with hundreds of samples to be processed in the latter half of the month.

Mecosta is now the 14th Michigan county where chronic wasting disease has been identified in the wild deer population, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. An adult buck ...

LANSING – Mecosta is now the 14th Michigan county where chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been identified in the wild deer population, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

CWD was first discovered in 1967 in Fort Collins, Colorado. CWD is a fatal neurological disease of deer, elk, and moose caused by infectious, misfolded proteins called prions. There are no current ...

Wildlife Resources Division (WRD) has confirmed through the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories that a hunter-harvested deer sampled for routine ...

HPAI, commonly known as bird flu, is a highly contagious respiratory disease that causes sickness and sometimes death in ...

The DNR said the bird flu warning is especially important for wild fowl hunters. “While waterfowl hunters are much more ...

On May 12, the Oden State Fish Hatchery Visitor Center will host a ceremony to signal the start of the next phase of the ...