State to assess chronic wasting disease efforts

April 22, 2003

by Terry Devitt

Chronic wasting disease and the state's efforts to manage it will be the topic of a symposium, 1-3:55 p.m., Thursday, April 24, at the Fluno Center for Executive Education.

The symposium will include a review of the state's efforts to curb CWD, its testing program and plans for management of the disease in the state's deer herd.

Following the symposium, Elizabeth Williams, University of Wyoming professor of veterinary sciences, will deliver the Aldo Leopold Lecture entitled "Chronic Wasting Disease: Implications for Wisconsin."

Participants in the symposium, to be convened by Chancellor John Wiley, include: Scott Craven, chair of the Department of Wildlife Ecology; Milton Friend, former director of the U.S. National Wildlife Health Laboratory; Jerry Davis, outdoor writer and UW-La Crosse emeritus professor of biology; Robert Shull, director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Lab; Jeffrey Schinkten, president, Whitetails Unlimited; Scott Hassett, secretary, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources; Timothy Eisele, outdoor writer; and Stanley Temple, professor of wildlife ecology.