BATON ROUGE, La. – The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LWFC) ratified a Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Secretarial Declaration of Emergency (DE) expanding the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Control Area in east central Louisiana. The action came during Thursday’s (Feb. 5) monthly commission meeting in Baton Rouge.
The DE was issued Jan. 9 in response to a confirmed CWD detection in a hunter-harvested white-tailed buck in Concordia Parish on Richard K. Yancey Wildlife Management Area (WMA).
The new Control Area includes all of Catahoula and Concordia parishes and portions of Avoyelles, LaSalle, Pointe Coupee and Rapides parishes. The existing CWD control area was expanded to include these new areas…