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In areas where the attractant ban is also in place, people must remove any liquid food scents, salt, minerals and other natural or manufactured products that attract deer.
Keeping Minnesota’s wild deer population healthy remains the goal of the DNR’s response to CWD. The DNR’s three-pronged approach to prevent the spread of the disease was detailed in an earlier news release. The agency’s CWD response plan can be found on the DNR website.
Current deer feeding and attractant bans
Currently 31 counties in north-central and southeastern Minnesota have deer feeding and/or attractant bans in place. The bans in five of those counties will be removed on July 1. So, with six counties being added and five removed, a total of 32 counties will have feeding and/or attractant bans in place on July 1.
The 31 counties with bans currently in effect are:
Deer feeding and attractant ban: Deer feeding ban:
*As previously announced, starting July 1 the DNR will remove the feeding ban from Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, Renville and Wright counties, as CWD was not detected in any wild deer for the third-consecutive year of wild deer disease testing in central Minnesota.
Find more information on feeding and attractant bans on the DNR website.
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Minnesota Deer Feeding and Attractant Bans Expand to Help Fight CWD
Submitted by: TBC Press
Posted on: 06/11/20
News # 13630
Following the discovery of chronic wasting disease in a wild deer in Dakota County in March, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will expand current deer feeding and attractant bans to include Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Rice, Scott and Washington counties beginning July 1.
“To prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease, it’s important to limit close contact among deer,” said Michelle Carstensen, DNR’s wildlife health program supervisor. “By keeping feed and attractants out of our backyards, Minnesotans can discourage the congregation of deer that spreads this deadly disease.”
In counties where deer feeding is banned, people need to remove any grains, fruits, nuts and other food placed in ways that could entice deer. People who feed birds or small mammals need to make sure that deer cannot access the food. The feed should be kept at least 6 feet above ground level. Normal agricultural, forest management or wildlife food-planting practices are allowed.
- Aitkin
- Cass
- Crow Wing
- Dodge
- Fillmore
- Freeborn
- Goodhue
- Houston
- Hubbard
- Mille Lacs
- Morrison
- Mower
- Olmsted
- Steele
- Todd
- Wabasha
- Wadena
- Winona
- Carlton
- Chisago
- Douglas
- Isanti
- Kanabec
- Kandiyohi*
- McLeod*
- Meeker*
- Pine
- Pope
- Stearns
- Wright*
- and the portion of Renville County north of U.S. Highway 212*
