The college is assessing how research activities and educational programming will proceed during the 5-year quarantine.
An adult cow elk tested positive for the fatal disease in Wyoming Elk Hunt Area 77 in the refuge, officials say.
A second deer sampled in the same county has tested positive at the Pennsylvania Animal Diagnostic Laboratory System, and the result is awaiting confirmation.
The infected white-tailed doe was harvested by a hunter in Deer Area 2 in January.
He was a section chief at the Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases at the National Institute of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana.
The infected deer was harvested by a hunter in Clement Township.
The Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission will meet in March to finalize any deer-management changes prompted by the discovery.
The infected buck was taken by a hunter in the Richard K. Yancey Wildlife Management Area.
The county's deer baiting and feeding ban will be extended for another 3 years as a result, officials say.
Grangeville is in northwest Idaho, in the foothills of the Bitterroot Mountains.
Dickson County is in the north-central part of Tennessee, and Williamson County is in the central part of the state, just south of Nashville.
Wildlife-feeding and carcass-transportation restrictions are in place, because Wayne County was already included in the state’s CWD management zone.
The deer was harvested near the Berrien County line, about 14 miles from the nearest CWD-positive location.
CWD has now been found in free-ranging white-tailed deer in 18 counties in addition to Decatur.
The detections were the first for Tom Green County, in the west-central part of the state.
Deer Hunt Areas 106 and 150 are located in the northwestern part of the state and are gateways to Yellowstone National Park.
The discovery was 92 miles from the nearest previous detection, in Cumberland County.
Previous deer-farm cases were documented in the southwestern county in 2014 and 2018.
In late summer, private landowners reported seeing the emaciated deer, which was euthanized and tested in September.
A hunter-harvested mule deer buck tested positive for CWD in Mule Deer Hunt Area 153 in the Pinedale region.
The elk cow was found dead from the fatal neurodegenerative illness near Cody, in the northwestern part of the state.
The county was already included in the North Mississippi CWD Management Zone.
An adult female elk in Elk Hunt Area 116 tested positive for the fatal neurologic infection, marking the area's first case.
Both free-ranging and captive animals have previously tested positive in the county, which is surrounded by other CWD-positive counties.
The 2.5-year-old buck was found about 5 miles from a previous detection in adjacent Lanier County.
