RALEIGH, N.C. (November 19, 2009) – The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has scheduled three hearings to receive public comment on three proposed amendments to established rules and one proposed new rule governing captive cervids. These proposals apply to current captive cervid licensees only.
Cervids are members of the family Cervidae, which includes deer, elk, moose and caribou.
The public hearings are set for:
- 7 p.m. Dec. 8, Iredell Agricultural Center, Statesville
- 7 p.m. Dec. 10, Bladen County Courthouse, Elizabethtown
- 7 p.m. Dec. 14, Centennial Campus for Wildlife Education, Raleigh
The proposals are:
- Establishing a voluntary Captive Herd Certification Program that would allow the transportation and importation of cervids from herds in which chronic wasting disease has not been detected for at least five years.
- Allowing the importation of cervids into North Carolina from herds that have had no detectible chronic wasting disease for the past five years under certain requirements. Herds that reside in CWD-positive states, provinces or countries are excluded.
- Exempting newborn cervids from counting toward the total number of cervids in a facility until March 1 of the year following the birth of the cervid.
- Allowing transport, transfer and sale of cervids within North Carolina between herds that have been certified under rules of the Commission. Licensees may also request expansion of pen size in their renewal applications.
For the full text of the proposed rules, click proposal #1, proposal #2, proposal #3 or proposal #4.
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