By Patrick Durkin | Lawmakers have ignored their many harms to Wisconsin’s deer herd since slashing funds to manage chronic wasting disease in 2007, outlawing earn-a-buck rules in 2011, ending in-person deer registration in 2016, and eliminating mandatory carcass tags in 2017.
Therefore, we shouldn’t be surprised the Department of Natural Resources failed to manage deer numbers or slow CWD’s spread with recreational hunting the past 20 years. CWD has now been found in wild deer in 59 of Wisconsin’s 72 (82%) counties. Likewise, this always-fatal disease was found in a record 1,787 deer in 2024, a record detection rate of 10.3%.
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