Wisconsin farmed CWD-positive deer in Washburn County to start bait ban in four counties?

A recent Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) press release sent shudders through northwest Wisconsin with news that a farmed deer positive for CWD was found on a Washburn County deer farm. While DATCP didn’t name the deer farm with the infected deer, DNR Wildlife Biologist Nancy Christel, of Spooner, confirmed the deer is from a farm once called Thun-Deer Trophy Whitetails, a 150-acre hunting ranch with about 300 deer in southeast Washburn County near Birchwood. An online search indicates the property may have changed ownership and name in the last few years and is now an LLC registered in Minnesota.