Pennsylvania CWD Study to Include Collared Whitetails
Deer in two Pennsylvania counties will be outfitted with tracking collars during a research project into chronic wasting disease in the state.
Deer in Bedford and Fulton counties will be outfitted with telemetry tracking collars, according to officials with the Pennsylvania Game Commission. The two counties have produced about 90 percent of the known cases of CWD-positive whitetails in the Keystone State in the last 11 years.
“Although it is unfortunate that CWD is now found in about one of every five hunter-harvested adult deer. “It will give us insight into the effects of CWD on Pennsylvania’s deer population.”
