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Wisconsin’s huge deer herd won’t generate a big harvest

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(First published in the November 27, 2019 issue of City Pages) Despite a “new era” that promised to put the fun back into deer hunting Whitetail Deer Buck Wisconsin gun-hunters in 2018 registered 247,614 deer, continuing a 10-year run of sub-275,000 harvests. Still, that’s more than the seating capacity of Lambeau Field, Camp Randall Stadium, […]

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New study raises concerns over chronic wasting disease transmission, but not everyone is worried Whitetail Deer Head Looking Left A closeup of a whitetail deer looking towards the left Sandy Thistle spent most of her twenties as a vegetarian. When she decided to start eating meat again in her late 20s, she wanted to kill

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Marathon County is one of four Wisconsin counties earmarked for a plan to detect chronic wasting disease during the fall deer hunting seasons, officials say. Hunters who harvest deer can submit an adult deer head or lymph node sample for testing at participating local businesses. The Department of Natural Resources will test the samples for

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Wisconsin’s huge deer herd won’t generate a big harvest

You gonna eat that?

DEER HUNTERS: CWD watch is HERE