FOREST LAKE, Minn. – Minnesota Department of Natural Resources officials are disappointed that a deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease for the first time near the Minnesota-South Dakota border.
Wildlife health supervisor Erik Hildebrand says the deer was taken near Wheaton in Traverse County.
“It’s always a surprise when we get a new area and it’s very unfortunate,” Hildebrand says. “This is not good news by any means.”
Hildebrand says they’re trying to determine where the deer came from and don’t have solid CWD surveillance data for that part of the state.
Most of the state’s CWD cases have been in southeastern Minnesota.
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