Quarantine Expanded to Protect Missouri’s Trees from Invasive Emerald Ash Borer
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.) – Following this summer’s findings of the invasive Emerald Ash Borer in Platte, Madison and Reynolds counties, Missouri’s quarantine regulating the movement of many ash wood products has been expanded. The quarantine, an effort to reduce the spread of the one-half [...]

This link to the Columbia Missourian was just passed through to us from the Missouri Department of Conservation:
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2012/06/22/us-department-agriculture-quits-funding-missouri-chronic-wasting-disease-efforts/
The heart of the story is here:
“The discoveries in Macon County came as the federal government was cutting $17 million in nationwide assistance used for compensating owners of infected captive deer herds killed in an effort [...]

MDC needs hunter help with CWD sampling of harvested deer
Conservation Department asks deer hunters to allow MDC to collect tissue samples from deer harvested in north-central Missouri area for chronic-wasting-disease testing.
JEFFERSON CITY Mo – As part of its ongoing efforts to monitor Missouri’s free-ranging deer for chronic wasting disease (CWD), the Missouri Department of Conservation [...]

According to news released October 20, a captive deer with CWD has been found in Missouri this year, this time in Macon County in north central Missouri. Macon County is about 50 miles north of Columbia.
A captive deer was found in 2010 in Linn County, also in north Missouri. Both deer were discovered during [...]