Some good news from Northeastern Minnesota. At the Duluth News Tribune, John Myers reports in St. Louis County makes deer farm ban permanent:
The St. Louis County Board on Tuesday voted to permanently prohibit new deer and elk farms in the county in an effort to prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease.
The unanimous vote, held during the commissioners' regular meeting Wright, updates the county’s zoning ordinance to allow existing cervid farms to continue to operate but prohibits expansion of those existing farms. As of May, the county had only five such cervid farms in operation among about 250 statewide. . . .
CWD is always fatal to animals and there are no treatments or vaccines. In 2021, a CWD-positive deer farm was confirmed in Beltrami County and, earlier this year, two wild deer tested positive for CWD in Grand Rapids in neighboring Itasca County — the first wild deer confirmed with the deer in Northeastern Minnesota. . . .
Read the rest at the News Tribune.
Photo: Wild whitetail deer in the woods.
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