GAME COMMISSION ANNOUNCES EHD CONFIRMED IN ALLEGHENY AND WESTMORELAND COUNTIES
HARRISBURG - Dr. Walter Cottrell, Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife veterinarian, today announced that test results of dead deer from the southwestern part of the state have confirmed that epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) has been found in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties.
Results released today involved an adult female deer that was found dead in Jefferson Township, Allegheny County, and an adult female deer that was found dead in St. Clair Township, Westmoreland County. Other counties in which EHD has been confirmed are Beaver, Greene and Washington counties. As a reminder, Dr. Cottrell and other agency personnel from the Southwest Region are holding an informational meeting at 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 28, at the Waynesburg Fairgrounds Auction Building, Greene County, to provide the public with an update on the current outbreak of epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) in the southwestern part of the state.
Additionally, to provide the public with more information about EHD, the agency has posted an EHD fact sheet on its website (www.pgc.state.pa.us). The website also chronicles the agency's news releases issued about this outbreak since Aug. 27.

Most of our crew will be in Waynesburg for the EHD meeting Friday.  Not yet sure if I will be able to make it.  Many of the locals around where we hunt are planning on attending and some have banded together to do some spotting surveys of the areas affected.  They plan on presenting the data at the meeting.

As I have stated before, our farm and the neighbors have been hit hard.

I had a guy come into the store on Saturday and ask how our deer here were making out.

We talked a while and then he mentioned he had the skull of a nice 11 point, 1.5 year old in his truck bed that he founds dead near Beaver..

I went out and checked it out a really nice 11 pointer for being only a 1.5 year old buck..

Beaver county is a big buck sleeper area.  Alot of residential areas with some farmland mixed in.  Good genetics there and also the deer tend to be bigger bodied.