Research shows that for targeted culling to be effective, landowner-granted access to deer is central to its success.
DNR aerially surveyed 17.5 million acres of Minnesota for damage to forests in 2024. Since the early 1950s, aerial surveys ...
"Chronic wasting disease, commonly referred to as CWD, is a fatal neurological disease that affects cervids, including ...
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will discontinue targeted culling in the southeastern corner of the state — ...
Officials say chronic wasting disease has reached "endemic stage" in three permit areas, meaning current management ...
A strategy change is taking place to help combat chronic wasting disease in three southeast Minnesota deer permit areas. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources(DNR) said they will be ...
Among the achievements identified in the review, the Minnesota DNR revised deer population goals in all deer permit areas through a four-year process, expanded the youth deer season statewide ...
So far this year, the total deer harvest in that permit area totals 397, with 303 of the total being adult males, according to the DNR website. Following the detection near Wheaton, the Minnesota ...
which calls for three consecutive years of testing to help determine the potential prevalence of the disease in Deer Permit Area 271 and surrounding permit areas. The Minnesota DNR also will work ...