Deer

Extra hunting seasons are designed to help stop the spread of chronic wasting disease in deer, but a Missouri county was added to the list where it has been confirmed.

The Missouri Department of Conservation is encouraging deer hunters to donate meat through its Share the Harvest program.

Chronic wasting disease — which affects deer, elk and moose — continues to spread throughout the Great Plains and Midwest. Just this year, authorities in western Oklahoma detected the state’s first case in a free-ranging deer.

In May, the Ballwin Wildlife Rescue Center’s “I found a fawn” website traffic was up 635%.

Four more counties are now in the state’s mandated monitoring for the neurological disease that is fatal to deer.

Chronic wasting disease has not affected large numbers of deer in Missouri, but its geographical spread is increasing in the state.

The St. Louis County Council on Tuesday decided to allow bow hunters to have controlled deer hunts in county parks, a move spurred by deer overpopulation…

Deer hunters are helping out Missouri families again this year.Since 1992, the Share the Harvest Program has collected more than 3.5 million pounds of…

Julie Monroe is accustomed to seeing deer around her Kirkwood neighborhood, but not this many.On a recent evening, Monroe and her son counted 17 deer on…

The Missouri Department of Conservation is conducting a mandatory chronic wasting disease tissue sampling of deer killed in 25 select counties this…