Outside the ban area, the DNR advises against feeding deer and suggests focusing on habitat improvements for sustainable food ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is adding eight counties it's deer feeding and attractant ban in an effort to curb chronic wasting disease.

According to computer modeling by Sergey Berg, an assistant professor of computer and information science at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, CWD in southeastern Minnesota could have been ...

Minnesota — South Dakota border. To date, no wild deer with CWD had been previously detected in that area, nearby permit areas or near the Minnesota border in eastern South Dakota.

CWD is a fatal neurological disease that affects cervids. It is relatively rare in Minnesota. Since 2002, 236 deer out of over 130,000 tested by the Minnesota DNR have tested positive for CWD.

A: In some ways, Wyoming is ground zero for CWD infection in wild deer and elk. CWD was discovered near the southern Wyoming boundary and has been in the state's wild deer and elk for 40-plus years.

Since 2010, the state has detected 188 cases of CWD in wild deer in Minnesota. Those have mostly been clustered in the southeast metro and the southeastern part of the state.

With the confirmed case of CWD on the Minnesota side of the Red River, the DNR will establish a CWD "Management Zone” within about a 15-mile radius of the site where the positive deer was taken ...

Minnesota officials are scrambling on several fronts to fight against the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in northern deer herds where the always fatal neurological disease has traveled to ...

With Minnesota wildlife officials scrambling this winter to slow the spread of chronic wasting disease among wild deer in southeastern counties, and 55 Wisconsin counties now identified as CWD ...