
Wildlife officials, Klobuchar press for CWD funding
They’re urging the federal Department of Agriculture to develop a national tracking system for the deer disease as well as standards for transporting deer across state lines.

They’re urging the federal Department of Agriculture to develop a national tracking system for the deer disease as well as standards for transporting deer across state lines.

Students collected tissue samples from deer as hunters brought the animals into testing stations in parking lots, gas stations and forestry offices around the state. The DNR will use the information to track the disease’s

Canada goose numbers remain good in many areas and should provide some opportunity for goose hunters over the next week, especially in central and southern Minnesota.

But Canada goose numbers remain good in many areas and should provide some opportunity for goose hunters over the next week.

Chronic wasting disease was detected in four harvested samples from farmed deer at a quarantined farm in Crow Wing County.

The leaves are down, but be prepared to walk some miles if you want to shoot a few ruffs during November and December.

But Canada goose numbers continue to increase slightly each week in most areas. And while wetlands conditions remain good, hunting pressure is extremely low and will likely decline further with the deer opener this weekend.

Hunters shrugged off mild, windy and wet weather at this year’s Camp Ripley bow hunts near Little Falls, taking 237 deer in two hunts over a total of four days, Oct. 18-19 and Oct. 27-28.

The Minnesota River Valley Chapter of the Minnesota Deer Hunter’s Association is once again collecting deer hides for the MDHA’s Hides for Habitat program. Hunters can drop hides in bins at the following locations: Borough
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