The Pennsylvania Game Commission has expanded two Chronic Wasting Disease Management Areas and created a new DMA in response to recent discoveries of deer that tested positive for CWD in new areas of the state.
The new area, called DMA-7, is in response to a deer that tested positive for CWD in a captive facility in Lycoming County, and includes portions of Lycoming, Northumberland, Montour, Columbia and Sullivan counties. This is the fifth disease management area created in response to a case found in a deer at a deer farm.
The two zones that have been expanded include DMA-2, which includes parts of Indiana, Westmoreland, Clearfield and 17 other counties. The change is in the North-Central boundary and that is due to a case of CWD found in a deer killed in a roadkill incident and a second case found at a deer farm. The boundary expands north to I-99/Route 322 to include the Rothrock State Forest and State College areas. The other zone that will expand is DMA-4, which already includes Berks, Lancaster, and Lebanon Counties. The border was expanded south along the Susquehanna River to include the area around a captive facility in southern Lancaster County where another case was found.
Within all Disease Management Areas and the CWD established area, people are not allowed to remove or export any deer or elk high-risk parts, use or possess deer or elk urine-based attractants, directly or indirectly feed wild free-ranging deer or elk, or rehabilitate wild free-ranging deer or elk.
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