UPDATE – Bizarre case in CWD zone: Who ear-tagged this buck?
Rob Drieslein
November 28, 2017
Hunter-harvested white-tailed buck has personalized ear tags, and the DNR wants to know who put them there.
Minnesota DNR
Minnesota Outdoor News Cuffs & Collars – Nov. 24, 2017
Site Staff
November 23, 2017
District 1 – Baudette area CO Ben Huener (Roseau) continued to work the firearms deer season. Court was attended on a gross misdemeanor deer shining/DWI case. Assistance was given to officers in the Blackduck area
Chronic wasting disease discovered in Winona County farm deer
Staff and News Reports
November 22, 2017
Minnesota Board of Animal Health confirmed results with the USDA, has already quarantined the herd and started disease investigation.
Hunters register 161,057 deer through third weekend of season
Minnesota DNR Reports
November 21, 2017
The 2016 total harvest was 173,213 and to date firearms and archery hunters have harvested about 180,000 deer this year.
DNR Wildlife Section proposes statewide deer harvest goal of 190,000
Joe Albert
November 20, 2017
Harvest goal is part of deer planning effort.
DNR waterfowl report: Hunting success still ‘very good’
Minnesota DNR Reports
November 16, 2017
Canada goose numbers increased over the past week and should provide good opportunities through Thanksgiving weekend in many areas, according to the report.
Minnesota Outdoor News Cuffs & Collars – Nov. 17, 2017
Site Staff
November 16, 2017
District 1 – Baudette area CO Nick Prachar (Baudette) reports enforcement action was taken for taking deer over bait, possessing an overlimit of deer, and failure to register deer. CO Prachar also responded to complaints
Preliminary tests: 7 more deer possibly infected with CWD in southeastern Minnesota
Minnesota DNR Reports
November 15, 2017
Lou Cornicelli, DNR wildlife research manager, said it isn’t clear whether the additional positives indicate a westward expansion of the disease or individual deer movements, given that all the presumptive positive deer were adult males.
Hunters register 145,054 deer through second weekend of season
Minnesota DNR Reports
November 14, 2017
Preliminary results through the second weekend show that the number of deer registered was up 10 percent from 2016.
