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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 16, 2017
MEDIA CONTACT: Alex Murphy, DNR Director of Communications, (515) 729-7533, alex.murphy@dnr.iowa.gov.
DES MOINES, Iowa -- As
the state agency created and tasked with protecting Iowa’s natural resources,
including Iowa’s world-renown white-tailed deer herd, we respect but are disappointed
with the decision issued today by the Iowa Supreme Court in Brakke v. Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
The Department’s
quarantine of Pine Ridge Hunting Reserve was intended to prevent the wild deer herd
from accessing the chronic wasting disease exposed soil on site. Chronic
wasting disease prions exist in the environment without a live host.
Chronic
wasting disease may be devastating to the health of Iowa’s deer herd. Among
others, this could impact the more than 200,000
Iowans who hunt, which contributes more than $300 million annually to local
communities.
Link
to SUPCO decision on Brakke v. Iowa Department of Natural Resource
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