CWD in Your State?
Most state game agencies have
developed CWD action plans in
case the disease shows up. Here
are the plans of several states:
CWD-NEGATIVE STATES
Oregon http://www.dfw.state.
or.us/wildlife/health_program/
chronic_wasting/
Washington https://wdfw.
wa.gov/conservation/health/
cwd/
Idaho https://idfg.idaho.gov/
hunting/monitoring-chron-
ic-wasting-disease
California https://www.
wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/
Laboratories/Wildlife-In-
vestigations/Monitoring/
CWD#508011591-what-is-cali-
fornia-doing
Nevada http://www.ndow.org/
Nevada_Wildlife/Health_and_
Disease/Chronic_Wasting_Dis-
ease/
Arizona http://www.azgfd.
gov/w_c/research_cwd.shtml
CWD-POSITIVE STATES
response. Most state game
agencies are strapped with
their workaday mandates of
monitoring wildlife, catching
poachers, and licensing hunt-
ers. Monitoring and sampling
for CWD is expensive, and a
bill in Congress aims to help.
Senate Bill 2252, the “Chron-
ic Wasting Disease Support
for States Act,” would make
available $35 million annual-
ly in federal funds, to be split
between states ($20 million),
tribes ($5 million), and a rap-
id-response fund that states or
tribes could tap when CWD is
detected inside their borders.
Montana http://fwp.mt.gov/
fishAndWildlife/diseasesAndRe-
search/diseases/chronicWast-
ingDisease/management.html
Colorado http://cpw.state.
co.us/cwd
Wyoming https://wgfd.wyo.
gov/Wildlife-in-Wyoming/
More-Wildlife/Wildlife-Disease/
Chronic-Wasting-Disease
New Mexico http://www.wild-
life.state.nm.us/conservation/
invasive-species-and-diseases/
chronic-wasting-disease/
Lastly, keep abreast of
CWD’s advance. While you cer-
tainly don’t want it to show up
where you hunt, knowing about
how it affects animals, how to
identify it, and knowing what
to do if it does arrive make the
unknowns about the disease a
little less unsettling. WHJ
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