Since 2008, CWD has been detected at 16 Michigan cervid farms in the following counties: Kent (2), Lake (1), Mecosta (4), Montcalm (4), Newaygo (4), and Osceola (1). There are dozens of deer farms ...

Michigan has the only persisting bovine tuberculosis outbreak in wild deer anywhere in the U.S. — and it occasionally spills ...

In the same period, a proliferation of second-growth habitat from forestry and abandoned farms, the same second-growth that created havens for ruffed grouse, also benefited the whitetail deer.

The deer farm where the whitetail tested positive for CWD was placed under a five-year quarantine by the Department of Agriculture. The order makes it necessary for any additional deer that die on ...