Walter Cottrell
Posted: Tues Dec 11 2007 4:30 p.m. Post subject: Bovine TB in free-ranging WTD in MN
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Walter O.Cottrell, MS, DVM
Wildlife Veterinarian
Pennsylvania Game Commission
Animal Diagnostic Laboratory
Orchard Road
University Park, PA 16802
814.863.8370
5. TB fears cause special deer hunt in northwestern Minnesota By Doug Smith
The Minneapolis Star Tribune December 4, 2007
In an unusual move, a special deer hunt will be held this winter in
northwestern Minnesota to reduce deer densities there because of bovine
tuberculosis.
And after the 16-day hunt, federal sharpshooters will again be brought in to
further reduce deer numbers.
The action announced Tuesday comes after three more deer - out of 1,100 deer
killed by hunters this fall - tested positive for the disease. That brings
the total of infected wild deer to 13 since surveillance began in 2005, when
the disease was first discovered there in cattle.
Since then, eight infected cattle herds in Roseau and Beltrami counties have
been destroyed.
The special 16-day deer hunt will occur Dec. 29-Jan. 13 in deer Permit Area
101, which is near Skime, Minn.
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