Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance

Boone and Crockett Club Helps Form Alliance

In 2001, the Boone and Crockett Club, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and Mule Deer Foundation formed a partnership alliance to address chronic wasting disease (CWD). The organizations agreed to pool resources and collaborate on ways to positively address the CWD issue.

OBJECTIVES

One of the greatest needs is the dissemination of timely and accurate information regarding CWD to the organizations’ members, the general public and the media.

Some activities include:

Consideration of grant requests for specific CWD research and management projects
Working with state and federal agencies to develop policy recommendations for the management and eradication of CWD
Providing expert testimony to select decision makers such as state wildlife commissions, state legislatures, and the United States Congress.

For most current up-to-date information visit the Alliance's web site at www.cwd-info.org.

FREE CWD VIDEOS

The Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance (CWDA) and American Outdoor Productions (AOP) have partnered to provide a free, on-line chronic wasting disease (CWD) education video, reports the Wildlife Management Institute. Titled "Shedding Light on CWD," the video presents current and comprehensive status information on CWD and shows proper field-processing techniques for deer, elk and moose harvested in CWD-positive areas.

Nearly 35 minutes in length and offered at two connection speeds, the video contains 19 chapters such as "CWD Facts," "State Regulations," "Field Dressing Precautions" and "CWD Testing." Each chapter can be viewed independently to allow users to access targeted information that pertains to their specific question or concern.

Combining the production expertise of AOP and technical input from CWDA, "Shedding Light on CWD" was initiated in 2004. Originally available only through sales, the video became free for on-line viewing after CWDA purchased the rights to the production from AOP last year. Since then, the video has undergone extensive updating to make it current with the most recent CWD information, regulations and research available.

To view the videos, visit www.cwd-info.org.