During the Minnesota DNR’s “targeted culling” of whitetails – conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services – late this past winter, in three areas of the state, a total of 411 whitetails were killed.
Seventeen of those animals tested positive for chronic wasting disease. Further, all “positive” samples were taken in what the DNR refers to as the “south block,” which includes an area in the south metro, along with the south-eastern region.
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