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Proclamation Establishes Deer and Elk Transportation Guidelines
091806
A proclamation establishing guidelines for transporting deer and elk
carcasses and carcass parts into North Dakota has been sent to the
Governor's office for consideration, according to Greg Link, assistant
wildlife chief for the state Game and Fish Department.
The proclamation provides transportation and importation guidelines for
white-tailed deer, mule deer and elk as a precaution against the possible
spread of chronic wasting disease into the state.
Hunters are not allowed to transport into North Dakota the whole carcass,
or certain carcass parts, of deer or elk from areas within states or
provinces with documented occurrences of CWD in wild populations and private
game farms.
CWD affects the nervous system of white-tailed deer, mule deer and elk
and is always fatal. To date, CWD has not been diagnosed in wild or farmed
deer or elk in North Dakota, but has been found in a growing number of
locations across North America in recent years.
Scientists have found no evidence that CWD can be transmitted naturally
to humans or livestock.
Hunters taking white-tailed deer, mule deer or elk from areas documented
with CWD are allowed to transport the following portions of the carcass:
 | Meat that is cut and wrapped either commercially or privately. |
| Quarters or other portions of meat with no part of the spinal column
or head attached. |
| Meat that has been boned out. |
| Hides with no heads attached. |
| Clean (no meat or tissue attached) skull plates with antlers attached.
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| Antlers with no meat or tissue attached. |
| Upper canine teeth, also known as buglers, whistlers or ivories. |
| Finished taxidermy heads. |
The following game management units, equivalent wildlife management
units, or counties have had deer or elk diagnosed with CWD, and only the
carcass parts listed above from harvested elk, white-tailed and mule deer in
these units will be allowed into North Dakota.
| Colorado - Game Management units 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,
14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 36, 37, 38, 51, 59, 84,
87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 102, 109, 161, 171, 181, 191, 211,
214, 231, 301, 391, 421, 441, 461, 521, 591, 951. |
| Illinois - Counties of Winnebago, Boone, McHenry, DeKalb, and Ogle.
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| Kansas - Deer Management Unit 1. |
| Nebraska - Upper Platte, Platte, Plains, Sandhills, Buffalo and Pine
Ridge units, which include the counties of Cheyenne, Kimball, Sioux,
Scotts Bluff, Morrill, Sheridan, Box Butte, Dawes, Banner, Cherry, Hall,
Deuel, Grant, Arthur. |
| New Mexico - White Sands Missile Base (GMU 19) and GMU 34. |
| Saskatchewan - Wildlife Management Zone 11, 12, 13, 14, 25, 46, 47,
50, 68 South and Fort a la Corne Wildlife Management Unit. |
| South Dakota - Prairie units WRD-21A, WRD-27A, WRD-27B; and Black
Hills units BHD-BH1, BHD-BD3, BHD-BD4. |
| Utah - 8 North Slope ( Daggett County), 9 Vernal- Diamond Mountain (
Duchesne County), 16Central Mountains ( Utah and Sanpete counties), and 13
La Sal Mountains (Grand and San Juan counties). |
| Wisconsin - any deer registered with a Wisconsin DNR Red Registration
Tag from the area designated as the Disease Eradication Zone including
deer management zones 70-CWD, 70A-CWD, 70B-CWD, 70C-CWD, 70D-CWD, 71-CWD,
73E-CWD, 75A-CWD, 75C-CWD, 75D-CWD, 76-CWD, 76M-CWD, 77A-CWD, 77B-CWD, and
77C-CWD. |
| Wyoming - Deer Hunt areas 6, 8, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 22, 30, 33, 34,
41, 55, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67,70, 73, 74, 75, 76, 78, 79,
80, 81, 82, 88, 89, 158, 164 or Elk Hunt areas 5, 6, 7, 125. |
Additional units may be added as necessary, Link said, and the public
will be informed of any dditional areas through the Game and Fish
Department's website, gf.nd.gov.
Because each state has its own set of rules and regulations, hunters
should contact the state in which they will hunt to obtain more information.
"All hunters must comply with regulations in the state they are hunting,"
Link said. "These regulations do not supersede existing regulations."
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