A federal laboratory has confirmed a positive test for chronic wasting disease in a white-tailed deer shot by an archery hunter last November near Pine Island, Minn. It's the first confirmed finding of CWD in a wild deer in Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources received the confirmation late Tuesday from the National Veterinary Services Laboratory at Ames, Iowa. The result was not unexpected after two preliminary positive tests done by the University of Minnesota. Minnesota officials had been testing deer in the Pine Island area after four elk in a captive herd tested positive for the disease in 2009. The elk herd was later destroyed. DNR officials are conducting aerial surveys around Pine Island to identify deer concentrations so more animals can be killed and tested. Landowners are being contacted and will be given special permits to cull deer. That culling likely will begin next week, according to reports. CWD is fatal to deer, elk and moose but not known to affect human health. The disease is found in 15 states and provinces; it has been found in Colorado and Wyoming for over 30 years and was first found in Wisconsin's wild deer herd in 2002. ------------------ I hope it doesn't go down the way it went down here in Wisconsin....Good luck brothers! .
Crappy for the deer and deer hunters of Minnesota. Unfortunately not only do you have to worry about the disease; you have to worry about the reaction by humans to the disease. Good luck guys.
You stalking me again? The court ordered you to take that picture off your nightstand. Did you comply?
Germ should have asked... do people bait ?? From what TeeJay tells me... a lot of people get busted for it in Minnesota. Legal or illegal may be irrelevant !! LOL Tim
Baiting isn't legal in Minnesota, but it's amazing the amount of people that do it during the season. It's pretty much a moot point, as Tim pointed out.
I was just joking... kind of. Party hunting is illegal here but seems to still be very much alive. Tim
