LDWF is moving forward with proposed measures to combat the spread of chronic wasting disease in the state’s deer population.

Hunters can now review the 2025 Minnesota deer hunting regulations, and deer hunting licenses will be available to purchase ...

A biology professor at the University of Montana Western is leading a new research project aimed at uncovering how Chronic ...

CWD is contagious and believed to be spread when an animal comes in contact with an infected animal’s saliva, blood, urine, feces, or carcass. It may also spread through the environment, the CDC ...

Deer hunting licenses will be available to purchase on Aug. 1, according to a DNR press release. There is now one type of ...

CWD is contagious and believed to be spread when an animal comes in contact with an infected animal’s saliva, blood, urine, feces, or carcass. It may also spread through the environment, the CDC ...

Think tossing corn in your backyard for the neighborhood deer is harmless? Think again. In over 30 Minnesota counties, this ...

According to statewide CWD testing by the DNR, the disease was detected this season in 85 deer. A whopping 72 of those cases were located in three close-knit hunting areas bordering Iowa or the ...

In 2016, in a CWD-prone area that the DNR describes as the southern farmland zone, 442 deer tested positive for disease out of 3,760 samples. More than 65,000 deer were killed in that zone and ...

Since 2012, the agency has tested 94,178 deer for CWD and has had 1,460 positive cases. In 2022-23 hunting seasons, 426 deer tested positive.

"I think the risk is very high" that CWD could emerge in humans exposed by eating infected deer meat, says Osterholm, an epidemiologist, professor and director of the Center for Infectious Disease ...