Program for West Nile virus monitoring in Ruffed Grouse continues.
Written by Jesse Baroka on September 17, 2020
MADISON – The DNR is conducting a third and final year of a multi-year monitoring program for West Nile virus in ruffed grouse. The COVID-19 pandemic has prevented staff from being able to safely assemble and distribute new West Nile virus kits for ruffed grouse, but there are still over 500 kits that were distributed to hunters that have not yet been submitted to the lab for testing. If you have one of these kits laying around, you are asked to collect a sample from a harvested grouse and turn it in.
