Posted November 4, 2017 10:30 am by Comments

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

Tests confirm spread of CWD to Lancaster County
Deer Hunters: Mandatory CWD Testing In Minnesota This Weekend

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

USA -(Ammoland.com)- In 2016, you purchased a firearm deer hunting license for a permit in an area that is subject to mandatory chronic wasting disease testing on Saturday, Nov. 4, and Sunday, Nov. 5.

Testing in north central and central Minnesota will determine whether CWD may have spread from captive deer to wild deer in central and north central Minnesota. Deer in these areas are not known to have CWD. These tests will determine that.

Mandatory CWD testing also will occur in much of southeast Minnesota Nov.4-5 because of its proximity to 11 known instances of CWD in wild deer.

After field dressing and registering their deer, all hunters in affected permit areas are required to take them to a sampling station. DNR staff will remove lymph nodes and submit them for laboratory testing.

Early detection is our best opportunity to eliminate disease spread and keep Minnesota deer healthy. It’s your cooperation that makes these surveillance efforts work.

And they do work. Proactive surveillance and precautionary testing for disease is a proven strategy that allows DNR to manage CWD by finding it early and reacting quickly and …Read the Rest

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