EHD in Parke County

[indianaboy]

Anyone else seeing any cases in their counties. Found a 8 pt 2 yr old laying in my buddy's back yard about a week ago. It was an awful sight. He couldnt even move and was panting like crazy. I had put him down. Ive also heard of other people finding 3 or 4 here and there. I also found a doe yesterday dead by the creek. It really stinks for this to hit right now so close to season. My particular area has yet to be effected until now that I know of. We usually always have enough water flow from the springs but they arent even flowing hard enough to keep the holes flushed out. Hopefully the rain we have gotten lately cures the problem.

[lymanl3]

I found a doe yesterday in Illinois near a creek. Hadnt been dead but for a few days.

[gobblerstopper]

The neighbor of the farm I hunt found a buck dead in his lake a couple of weeks. Haven't seen the rack or pictures yet, but I have heard he would have went well over 170". That was in warrick county. A guy I work with has found two small bucks dead on his property in Spencer county.

I talked with a CO assigned to Warrick county and he believed there were some EHD cases, but I don't know if any have been confirmed.

[featherduster]

About this time last year I found 2 dead does along a ditch near my home here in the northern part of the state.
It was said that our area was hit rather hard by this problem.
The up side was I saw more deer on opening weekend than I had ever seen in years past.

[Woody Williams]

I talked to Chad Stewart and he said there were some reported and confirmed cases of EHD in Parke and Warrick.

He said it was kind of late in the year for EHD cases so he is hoping that it will be minor.

[629powerport]

I'm telling you, "There are no deer in Parke County!"

[Woody Williams]

I talked to Chad Stewart at the NRC meeting about EHD and he sent me thuis ..

As far as EHD reports, here is what I have so far:

Vermillion County-EHD has been confirmed through laboratory testing

I have also received reports of multiple dead deer in the following counties:

Gibson
Warrick
Spencer
Parke
Jennings

These are likely EHD, but they have not been confirmed through laboratory testing.

I do not anticipate a major event like 2007 since this is occurring somewhat later in the season. In many areas of the state, conditions (i.e. drought) favored an EHD outbreak, so it is not surprising. As I said to you at the meeting, we probably have EHD to some extent every year, it just is a matter of the location and the level of impact.