DICKINSON COUNTY, MI-- Chronic Wasting Disease has been found in an Upper Peninsula deer for the first time.
The Department of Natural Resources says a 4-year-old doe shot in Dickinson County’s Waucedah Township tested positive for CWD. The deer was shot on an agricultural farm about four miles from the Wisconsin border. It was taken under a deer damage shooting permit—part of the DNR’s surveillance effort to track the disease.
Officials say in the short term they’ll step up testing of deer heads through deer-damage permits, roadkill, and hunter-killed deer. The DNR has set a goal to test a minimum of 600 deer within a 10-mile area of Waucedah Township.
CWD has already been found in 63 deer in six downstate counties.
