You are encouraged to share the attached information with your members and associates. Copies of this and further information outlining the efforts of Sustainable Resource Development's Fish and Wildlife Division to control CWD also are available on the website www.srd.alberta.ca/fishwildlife/livingwith/diseases/.

Extensive information about how hunters can help control CWD is covered in the Alberta Guide to Hunting Regulations 2008, pages 29, 69-70, and the inside front cover.

Hunters are reminded to submit deer heads from Wildlife Management Units along the Alberta/Saskatchewan border from Cold Lake to Medicine Hat. Units immediately adjacent the border require mandatory submission of heads, while WMUs immediately west of those on the border are voluntary submission areas.

These heads are needed for our ongoing CWD surveillance programs.

A total of 40 freezers (available 24-hours) for dropping off heads are present throughout these WMUs, plus in Edmonton and Calgary. Maps of freezer locations are posted widely and also are included on our disease web pages.

New for 2008 we also have mobile head drop-off centres that will be located at highway intersections in central and eastern Alberta during November.

Hunting opportunities are increased through quota licences in CWD high risk areas on the eastern border. These quota licences are available through the under-subscribed licence system or as landowner licences for local residents.

All hunters will be notified of the CWD test results of the head(s) they submit to the surveillance program.