The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has confirmed that a wild deer tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease in southwestern Shawano County. The four-year-old buck was harvested in the town of Germania during the 2022 archery deer season. This is the second confirmed wild deer CWD-positive case in Shawano County.
As required by state law, the DNR enacts three-year baiting and feeding bans in counties where CWD has been detected and two-year bans in adjoining counties that lie within 10 miles of a CWD detection. The recent detection of CWD in Shawano County results in the renewal of the baiting and feeding restrictions.
The DNR asks deer hunters in Shawano, Waupaca, Marathon and Portage counties to assist with efforts to identify where CWD is present on the landscape.
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