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The article reports on the dead bulk elk found during the second week of the deer hunting season in Ontario. According to Dr. Rick Rosatte of the Ministry of Natural Resources, the elk did not die from a gunshot, but from an infection due to an injury. The animal was monitored through a radio-collar at the Elk Island National Park and was released at Gin Lake in Ontario in 2000.

The article focuses on the measures taken by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources to arrest the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD). Dr. Brent Patterson of the Ministry said that during the last two years they had surveyed one zone each year and will take up surveying of three more zones this year. Apart from this, free Monitoring will also be conducted on hunter-killed deer in various Wildlife Management Units. Ontario is a CWD free area.