The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will discontinue targeted culling in the southeastern corner of the state — including parts of Winona and Fillmore counties — where chronic wasting

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced on Wednesday that they will cease targeted culling of deer in three permit areas due to levels of chronic wasting disease reaching endemic levels.

Chronic Wasting Disease is a fatal neurological disease affecting hoofed animals. Idaho just received its second case from a domestic elk that was not connected to the originally infected one. This concerns our hunting and agricultural economies as well as our health.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will discontinue targeted culling in deer permit areas 646, 647 and 648, in the southeast corner of the state, where chronic wasting disease has reached endemic stage, or a point in which some of the current methods of management are no longer effective.

Targeted culling of wild deer in Winona and Fillmore counties will end because a rise in CWD has made the disease management approach ineffective.

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has not been found in Georgia and the Georgia Department of Resources (DNR) is asking for the public’s help to keep it that way. CWD has been found in every state bordering except for South Carolina,

The targeted culling of deer to try and contain the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) is being ended in parts of southeastern Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) says the practice is being discontinued in deer permit area 646,

A strategy change is taking place to help combat chronic wasting disease in three southeast Minnesota deer permit areas.

A startling increase in the prevalence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in southeastern Minnesota’s deer population has triggered a new management response from the Department of Natural Resources that might surprise hunters.