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Panel adopts domestic-cervid rules aligning testing, fences with 2024 law; conservation group urges stronger CWD monitoring
Summary
The Senate Agricultural Committee adopted rules to align captive-cervid (elk/deer) disease regulations with 2024 law and to clarify chronic wasting disease testing and fence requirements.
The Idaho Senate Agricultural Committee adopted a set of rules to align captive cervid regulations with last year’s House Bill 591 and to clarify chronic wasting disease (CWD) testing and quarantine procedures.
Dr. Scott Lively, administrator of the Division of Animal Industries and state veterinarian, presented the changes. He told the committee the rule package updates definitions and testing standards to reflect scientific and statutory changes. “A valid CWD test requires the OBEX (brain stem) and the retropharyngeal lymph nodes,” he said, summarizing the laboratory-standard clarification the rule codifies.
The rule package also removes a prior House Bill provision that would have required a double-perimeter fence at facilities where a CWD-positive captive animal was…
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