The Minnesota DNR is establishing new chronic wasting disease (CWD) management zones in deer permit areas where it was recently confirmed for the first time.
Wildlife Health supervisor Erik Hildebrand says hunters in those areas will definitely have new requirements to follow…
“Such as a mandatory sampling framework which will likely be over the opening weekend of the firearms season. Then also carcass movement restrictions. We’ve detected disease in that deer permit area and we don’t want to potentially spread the disease to new areas or further.”
Hildebrand credits the hunters that harvested the bucks in Clay County, and near Greenfield in neighboring Hennepin County, and then provided samples to the DNR that tested positive for CWD.
(content: courtesy MNN)
