On Tuesday, the Minnesota Board of Animal Health sent out a press release, Special Board Meeting to review farmed Cervidae rulemaking postponed:
The special meeting of the Minnesota Board of Animal Health scheduled for Wednesday, July 28 to review farmed Cervidae rulemaking has been postponed. New statutory language from the 2021 special session grants concurrent authority of farmed white-tailed deer to the Board of Animal Health and Department of Natural Resources. Crafting the bounds of that shared regulatory oversight is a top priority for both agencies and needs to be fully addressed before resuming the rulemaking process.
That meeting would have been in Sleepy Eye.
The Board of Animal Health' website notes: "The next quarterly meeting of the Board of Animal Health will be held Wednesday, September 15, 2021, location to be determined." On the agenda: "Annie Balghiti, Linda Glaser Farmed Cervidae Rule Making."
We've contacted the BAH's communications staff to see if special meeting will indeed be re-scheduled or if this agenda item will cover it.
Update 7/28/2021 3:37 p.m.: Michael Crusan, the Communications Director for the Minnesota Board of Animal Health, stated in a phone call that the special meeting will be rescheduled as a separate event. [end update]
On Google search, this ghost of the event remained today (screengrab above):
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The Board will hold a special meeting on Wednesday, July 28, 2021 to review the farmed Cervidae rules draft. No public comment (including members of the Farmed Cervidae Advisory Committee) will be taken at this meeting, and Board members will not respond to comments. Location: Sleepy Eye Event Center, 110 12th Ave NE, Sleepy Eye, MN 56085. The meeting is also available remotely via Microsoft Teamsor by telephone at 763-317-4323, enter access code: 552535346#.
We're wondering what made them pause to "[craft] the bounds of that shared regulatory oversight" that needed to be "fully addressed before resuming the rulemaking process."
Bluestem suspects that there's more to this story and we're tracking down a lead or two. We've grown nostalgic for our time as a teen growing up along the Minnesota River valley, where all we had to do is learn to track a wounded whitetail.
Photo: A wild white tailed buck.
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