On Dec. 4, ECO Eyler questioned a hunter about details of a buck he had posted on a social media site. The hunter reported that the deer was harvested in Connecticut, just over the state border, and brought the ECO to the deer hanging in his brother's shed about a mile way. The deer was hanging in the shed, replete with a Connecticut Deer tag and half gutted. ECO Eyler informed the hunter of DEC's Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) regulations that prohibit the transportation of white-tailed deer in this condition to New York State. The ECO gave the hunter a summons and took the deer to be incinerated.

In addition to following up on tips like this one provided to DEC, ECOs are conducting checkpoints this hunting season on roadways in communities along the state border to help keep Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) out of New York. Officers check hunters returning from an out-of-state hunt with a carcass of a deer, moose, elk, or other cervid known to carry CWD because hunters are required to follow State regulations that prohibit the transportation of certain parts of the carcass into New York. DEC allows the following parts of the carcass to be transported into the State: deboned meat; cleaned skull cap; antlers with no flesh; raw or processed cape or hide; cleaned teeth or lower jaw; and finished taxidermy products. Additional information about CWD can be found at DEC's website.

ECO poses next to vehicle with confiscated, deceased deer
Confiscated Connecticut deer

ECO stands in the road at a deer check station
ECO Crisafulli at CWD checkpoint in Brewster last month