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State details new deer monitoring methods and sampling after chronic wasting disease detections
Summary
CDFW described aerial surveys, genetic fecal sampling and an integrated population model for deer; officials urged voluntary CWD sampling and noted four California detections to date.
At the Good Morning Truckee forum, Carly White, unit wildlife biologist for Placer and Nevada counties with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, described state efforts to improve deer population estimates and the department’s sampling response to chronic wasting disease (CWD).
White said CDFW is updating the statewide deer conservation and management plan and is developing an integrated population model that will combine aerial surveys, genetic mark–recapture from fecal DNA, game-camera data and GPS-collar survival and migration data to estimate deer populations and trends. “We just…
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