Nine more deer were added to the tally of CWD positive whitetails at a Houston County Farm following test results from a late-January depopulation of the farm.
The Fillmore, Houston and Winona County Farm Bureau's and the Bluffland Whitetails Association are hosting a discussion on Chronic Wasting Disease Thursday.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has scheduled two more late-season deer hunts in southeastern Minnesota as part of the agency's response to the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease in the region.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is planning two special hunts next month followed by deer culling efforts in January after Chronic Wasting Disease was discovered in 11 more deer harvested by hunters in Fillmore County this fall.
State officials say testing for Chronic Wasting Disease will be mandatory for hunters on the opening weekend of the firearm deer season in southeastern, central and north-central Minnesota.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources did not detect any additional Chronic Wasting Disease cases among the samples submitted by hunters that participated in the special late season hunt in the CWD zone in southeastern Minnesota.
No Chronic Wasting Disease was detected in more than 11,000 precaution samples from deer that hunters harvested this season in north-central, central and southeastern Minnesota