Someone Allegedly Illegally Imported Deer From New York To Vermont
December 4, 2007
img align=”left” src=’http://mainehuntingtoday.com/bbb/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/vermontfishandgame.jpg’ alt=’Vermont Fish and Game’ />Vermont authorities are investing a report that someone imported three deer, I assume dead, from New York, a state that is on the list of those determined to have cases of chronic wasting disease.
Officials decided they should reissue a warning to all people that it is illegal to bring into Vermont any deer or elk or parts thereof from states and Canadian Provinces listed as having confirmed cases of chronic wasting disease. Those states and provinces are:
New York, West Virginia, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota, Utah, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Montana, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.
Below is a list of Vermont’s exceptions or clarifications as to how deer or elk harvested in other states and/or Canada must be handled.
– Meat that is cut up, packaged and labeled with hunting license information and not mixed with other deer or elk during processing.
– Meat that is boneless.
– Hides or capes with no part of the head attached.
– Clean skullcap with antlers attached.
– Antlers with no other meat or tissue attached.
– Finished taxidermy heads.
– Upper canine teeth with no tissue attached.
Please be vigilant and do your part to help stop the spread of the fatal disease chronic wasting disease to other parts of the country.
Tom Remington
EHD Hasn’t Peaked Yet Evidently
December 4, 2007
Even though portions of northern New England last night saw some frost and temps below freezing, cold weather has yet to reach areas that are infested with Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EDH), an insect-born virus that is deadly to whitetail deer. This year the outbreak of EHD was quite widespread. Common in many southern states, this year EHD has been detected in northern states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and now New York.
It has been confirmed that EHD was the cause of death for some deer found in Albany County. This is the first ever that EHD has been officially found in the Empire State.
Officials say that once the first freeze arrives it will kill off the tiny insects that carry the disease.
Tom Remington
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