Brainerd Lakes area CWD sampling extended to 2024

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Minnesota Wildlife

Dec. 10, 2021

Stay informed! Here’s a weekly summary of upcoming wildlife and habitat management activities and ways you can discover, explore and experience Minnesota’s outdoors.

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Positive test on 1 Brainerd Lakes area deer extends CWD management to 2024

A newly discovered instance of chronic wasting disease in the Brainerd Lakes area will result in three more years of sampling and other disease management efforts for that area.

In addition, following the confirmation of a CWD-positive deer in late October in Polk County near the North Dakota border, the DNR will expand its deer feeding and attractant ban to include most of northwestern Minnesota.

More details: Read the DNR news release
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CWD hunts coming up  

Deer hunters seeking additional opportunities can harvest deer in late season chronic wasting disease management hunts in the southeast, south metropolitan area and along the Minnesota-North Dakota border.

Hunting dates are Friday, Dec. 17, through Sunday, Dec. 19, and Friday, Dec. 31, through Sunday, Jan. 2. Deer permit areas open to these CWD management hunts are 261, 262, 343, 605, 643, 645, 646, 647, 648, 649 and 655. Hunters may participate in both hunts.

More details: Read the CWD hunt regulations
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Get hunting information

Find hunting and trapping regulations, harvest registration, how to contact a conservation officer and information about pursuing a variety of species at mndnr.gov/hunting. New to hunting? Check out the DNR learn to hunt page.