WAUCEDAH TOWNSHIP, MI-- The Department of Natural Resources is stepping up surveillance efforts, after Chronic Wasting Disease was identified in a Dickinson County deer.
The four-year-old doe was killed in September on an agricultural farm in Waucedah Township, about four miles from the Wisconsin border. The DNR has established a roughly 10-mile-radius core surveillance area, centered on the Township. Officials are working within the zone to determine whether CWD exists in areas where the doe was killed.
The DNR hopes to collect a minimum of 600 deer heads for testing from the core area. Through previous efforts, 358 of those heads already have been gathered and tested.
Baiting in the area has not been restricted, but the DNR is recommending deer checks and limited carcass transport.
CWD is fatal to deer. There have been no reported cases in humans.
For additional information go to michigan.gov/cwd.
