![]() ![]() Self-service sampling station options also will be available for hunters who would prefer to drop off their deer heads rather than having staff take the samples at stations. The DNR will staff sampling stations during opening weekend. ![]() ![]() So far, no wild deer have been confirmed infected in that area. The zones included in the mandatory testing requirement are 110, 169, 194 and 179 (only areas west of Highway 6, not east of Highway 6) as far east as Deer River. New this year, in and around the Beltrami County deer farm where an entire herd was destroyed after multiple positive CWD tests in a bizarre case that saw the farmer dump infected carcasses on public land where CWD has now been found in the soil. Unlike the Pine County case, wild deer have been found infected in this area, although not in the past two years. Near Brainerd, special rules are in place and testing is required in Special Management Area 604 that stretches as far east as Aitkin. That CWD outbreak, while not yet confirmed in the wild, also has triggered a deer feeding ban in surrounding areas, including Carlton County. To the south, CWD testing is required in management areas 157 and 159 south of Hinckley, and in adjacent 200-numbered units in that region, after a deer at a deer farm tested positive in the area several years ago.
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