{"id":211,"date":"2018-12-22T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2018\/12\/22\/nc-wildlife-resources-commission-warns\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:29:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:29:44","slug":"nc-wildlife-resources-commission-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"NC Wildlife Resources Commission Warns About CWD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6564,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.ncwildlife.org\\\/News-Archives\\\/tennessee-reports-preliminary-detection-of-chronic-wasting-disease&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240521131142\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.ncwildlife.org\\\/News-Archives\\\/tennessee-reports-preliminary-detection-of-chronic-wasting-disease&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 15:42:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 21:47:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 04:15:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 04:15:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6565,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.ncwildlife.org\\\/News\\\/wildlife-commission-prohibits-importation-of-deer-carcasses&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.ncwildlife.gov\\\/News\\\/wildlife-commission-prohibits-importation-of-deer-carcasses&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6566,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.tn.gov\\\/twra\\\/hunting\\\/cwd\\\/#press&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6567,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.ncwildlife.org\\\/Portals\\\/0\\\/Hunting\\\/Documents\\\/CWD-Response-Plan.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.ncwildlife.gov\\\/Portals\\\/0\\\/Hunting\\\/Documents\\\/CWD-Response-Plan.pdf&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nChronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has been discovered in whitetail deer in western Tennessee. This fatal neurological disease does not affect humans or livestock but it can infect deer and other cervids such as elk, moose, and caribou. Obviously, North Carolina does not have a population of moose or caribou but it does have a lot of whitetail deer and a growing population of reintroduced elk.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncwildlife.org\/News-Archives\/tennessee-reports-preliminary-detection-of-chronic-wasting-disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advisory from the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission<\/a> along with the rules to for bringing in vension, deer hides, skulls, antlers, and mounts from other states. They also have a YouTube video for instructions on how to prep a carcass for importation if you are a do-it-yourself&#8217;er.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\">\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<strong style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">RALEIGH, N.C. (Dec. 17, 2018)<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 With the preliminary detection of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in white-tailed deer in western Tennessee, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission reminds deer hunters of a new rule that prohibits the importation of whole deer carcasses and restricts the importation of specific carcass parts from anywhere outside of North Carolina.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\nThe new rule, which was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncwildlife.org\/News\/wildlife-commission-prohibits-importation-of-deer-carcasses\" style=\"background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #003399; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">implemented for the 2018-19 deer hunting season<\/a>, is an effort on the Commission\u2019s part to prevent the spread of CWD into the state. CWD is a transmissible, always fatal, neurological disease that affects deer and other cervids such as elk, moose and reindeer\/caribou.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\nThe rule states that anyone transporting cervid carcass parts into North Carolina must follow processing and packaging regulations, which only allow the importation of:<\/div>\n<ul style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square outside; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Meat that has been boned out such that no pieces or fragments of bone remain;<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Caped hides with no part of the skull or spinal column attached;<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Antlers, antlers attached to cleaned skull plates, or cleaned skulls free from meat, or brain tissue;<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Cleaned lower jawbone(s) with teeth or cleaned teeth; or<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Finished taxidermy products and tanned hides.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\nAdditionally, all carcass part(s) or container of cervid meat or carcass parts must be labeled or identified with the:<\/div>\n<ul style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square outside; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Name and address of individual importing carcass parts;<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;\">State, Canadian province, or foreign country of origin;<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Date the cervid was killed; and<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Hunter\u2019s license number, permit number, or equivalent identification from the state, Canadian province, or foreign country of origin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\nThese new restrictions aim to prevent the infectious agent of CWD from contaminating new environments by way of disposal of carcass tissues, particularly those of the brain and spine, as CWD contaminants can persist in the soil for years.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\nOn Friday, officials with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/twra\/hunting\/cwd\/#press\" style=\"background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #003399; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) announced they were enacting their Chronic Wasting Disease Response Plan<\/a>, following the preliminary positive detections of CWD in white-tailed deer in Hardeman and Fayette counties, which border the Mississippi state line. TWRA biologists are testing additional deer and are trying to contact the hunters who harvested the infected deer.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\nOut of concern for the serious effects CWD could have on North Carolina\u2019s deer herd, the Commission developed a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncwildlife.org\/Portals\/0\/Hunting\/Documents\/CWD-Response-Plan.pdf\" style=\"background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #003399; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chronic Wasting Disease Response Plan<\/a>&nbsp;in 2002, with subsequent revisions over the years to respond to the disease\u2019s ever-growing spread. The plan identifies and guides the agency\u2019s initial short-term (approximately one year) efforts if CWD is detected in the state\u2019s deer herd, or if CWD is detected in deer within 30 miles of its borders. Agency biologists also conduct statewide sampling of deer every year and attempt to sample all deer that show signs of the disease or die of unknown causes.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\nWith Tennessee\u2019s preliminary detection of CWD within its borders, two states bordering North Carolina will have CWD in their deer herds. In Virginia, Shenandoah and Frederick counties, which border West Virginia, have confirmed cases of CWD.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<strong style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">About Chronic Wasting Disease<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\nChronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) disease in deer, elk, moose and reindeer\/caribou and is always fatal. The source of the disease is an abnormal prion (a form of protein) that collects in the animal\u2019s brain cells. These brain cells eventually burst, leaving behind microscopic empty spaces in the brain matter that give it a \u201cspongy\u201d look. As this occurs, it often causes behavior changes such as decreased interactions with other animals, listlessness, lowering of the head, a blank facial expression, and walking in set patterns.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\nCWD has no known impacts to the health of humans or livestock. However, the Commission recommends people do NOT eat:<\/div>\n<ul style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square outside; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Meat from a deer that looks sick<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Any of the following organs: brain, eyes, spinal cord, spleen, tonsils and lymph nodes*<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: inherit; font: inherit; list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Any meat from an animal that tests positive for the disease<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n*Normal field dressing coupled with boning out a carcass will remove most (if not all) of these body parts. Cutting away all fatty tissue will remove remaining lymph nodes.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bPQKqIVJRRY\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has been discovered in whitetail deer in western Tennessee. 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