MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) – Heading into the firearm deer season the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is taking a new approach to tracking chronic wasting disease, a fatal and contagious disease for deer.
Joe Stangel, southern regional wildlife manager for the state, said part of the plan is dividing the state into quarters and requiring sampling from a different region during the season for the next four years.
The first year of the plan will focus on southwest Minnesota…