Unlike fishing trips where catch and release is often the best way to preserve the ecosystem, you can't just release a buck that you shot. HereвЂ™s our advice though for anyone looking to take their first deer hunt this year. Deer hunts are available in almost every state, permits are not that expensive and there are plenty of clubs and experienced hunters willing to help someone learn more about this lifestyle.

ThereвЂ™s no better time than the present to get started as a hunter. In honor of National Hunting and Fishing Day, weвЂ™ve put together a list of deer hunting tips for beginners. More CWD informationД¬omplete CWD test results, feeding and attractant ban details, CWD management history and hunter information, including how and where to participate in two upcoming December disease management hunts, is available on the DNR website at. Northwest: No CWD detected in the 1,782 deer tested.Д¬limax area: No CWD detected in the 65 deer tested. West central: No CWD detected in the 369 deer tested. The other was near locations where infected deer were previously detected.Д®ast central: No CWD detected in the 1,369 deer tested. One case was in the northwestern corner of permit area 605.

South metro: Testing detected chronic wasting disease in two of the 1,063 deer sampled. Since 2019, this is the only deer that tested positive from all 6,107 deer sampled in this zone. The infected deer was harvested about 8 miles from the location where the first wild infected deer was detected. North central (Brainerd lakes area): Of the 1,234 deer tested so far this fall, a single 1ВЅ-year-old male tested positive. Despite the new discoveries, chronic wasting disease prevalence remains steady and continues to be low - less than 1% in both areas where the disease appears to be persisting in the wild deer population. All deer that tested positive were harvested in locations near areas where the disease was previously detected. Southeast: Chronic wasting disease testing of 4,705 deer revealed 17 new cases. Deer feed includes grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, hay and other food that is capable of attracting or enticing deer.Д¬ounties already part of the deer feeding ban are Carlton, Chisago, Douglas, Isanti, Kanabec, Pine, Pope and Stearns.ДЇeeding bans and attractant bans are part of the DNRвЂ™s CWD response plan and necessary because feed and attractants often cause deer to concentrate, greatly increasing the risk of deer-to-deer disease transmission. The discovery of a chronic wasting disease-infected wild deer near Climax along the Minnesota-North Dakota border adds Clearwater, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and Red Lake counties to the list of counties where deer feeding and the use of attractants such as salt, minerals and urine is not allowed.Д¬ounties already part of the feeding and attractant ban are Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Hennepin, Houston, Hubbard, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Mower, Olmsted, Ramsey, Rice, Scott, Steele, Todd, Wabasha, Wadena, Washington and Winona.Дetection of chronic wasting disease on a deer farm in Beltrami County adds Beltrami, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods and Roseau counties to the list of counties where deer feeding is not allowed. That initial discovery in wild deer came after testing in 2016 revealed that a deer farm within permit area 604 was infected with chronic wasting disease.

The area, which stretches north from Brainerd to Pine River and eastward to Aitkin, was in its final year of planned chronic wasting disease surveillance and management because the disease had not been detected there since a wild doe tested positive in 2019. One of the 1,234 deer hunters harvested thus far this fall in deer permit area 604 tested positive for chronic wasting disease. Expanding the feeding ban around Climax and Bemidji eliminates one layer of controllable risk associated with the concentration of wild deer at food placed by humans.вЂќ Brainerd lakes chronic wasting disease discovery вЂњContinued sampling allows us to monitor the extent of CWD in the Brainerd area. вЂњThese are precautionary but necessary measures,вЂќ said Michelle Carstensen, wildlife health program supervisor for the Minnesota DNR, in a news release. In addition, following the confirmation of a chronic wasting disease-positive deer in late October in Polk County near the North Dakota border, the DNR will expand its deer feeding and attractant ban to include most of northwestern Minnesota.

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