
Hunters harvest more Wisconsin deer on opening weekend
Despite fewer hunters, kill totals up nearly 13 percent from 2017.

Despite fewer hunters, kill totals up nearly 13 percent from 2017.

MADISON, Wis. — Rapidly growing numbers of cases of chronic wasting disease are appearing on deer and elk farms and hunting ranches in Wisconsin at the same time the state has pulled back on rules

Both the breeding farm and the hunting ranch have been quarantined. That means no animals may move in or out of the farm and further restricts movement of carcasses.

According to data from the Wisconsin DNR, the state sold about 824,500 deer licenses in 2017, about 50,400 fewer than 1999.

Hard hunting was worth it for the author during a Thanksgiving Day hunt a few years ago, and he couldn’t have been more thankful.

Hunting season is here and the Animal Health Diagnostic Center is accepting hunter-harvested submissions for CWD testing for $65 per sample (deer head). What do I submit? We need the deer head for testing. Remove

Total harvest just below same period from last year.

Overcrowding impacting deer health, damaging forests and causing property owners to complain about the animals chomping down their landscaping.

Nonresident deer hunters fined, busted.
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