PORT EDWARDS, WI (OnFocus) -On Saturday, October 9th, 2021, at approximately 6:00am the Wood County Dispatch Center received a call of a 60 year-old male who was pulseless and not breathing in the 4200 block of Lynn Hill Road, Town of Port Edwards, Wood County. WoodCounty Deputies, along with First Responders from Nekoosa Fire Department, […]
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) confirms the first wild deer has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in southern Wood County in the Town of Port Edwards, within ten miles of Juneau and Adams counties. As required by state law, the DNR will renew the baiting and feeding bans in Wood, Juneau and Adams counties.
The CWD-positive deer was an adult buck harvested during the 2020 gun deer season and tested as part of the department’s disease surveillance efforts. State law requires that the DNR enact a ban on the baiting and feeding of deer in counties or portions of counties within a 10-mile radius of a wild or farm-raised deer that tests positive for CWD. Because the deer was harvested within 10 miles of Juneau and Adams counties, bans in those counties will also be renewed.
By Liz Holbrook
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU) Another Central Wisconsin county has a confirmed case of CWD.
According to a press release from the DNR a wild deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease in the Town of Port Edwards in Wood County. The deer was found in an area of the county that is within ten miles of both Adams and Juneau counties. The CWD-positive deer was a buck harvested during the 2020 gun deer season and tested by the DNR’s disease surveillance efforts.
With the positive deer, Wood, Juneau, and Adams counties will be placed under baiting and feeding bans. State law requires that the DNR enact a ban on the baiting and feeding of deer in counties or portions of counties within a 10-mile radius of a deer that tests positive for CWD. Wood County will be placed under a 3-year ban while Juneau and Adams counties will be under a 2-year baiting and feeding ban.