Baiting and feeding ban reminder

With Wisconsin’s nine-day gun deer hunting season approaching (Nov. 23-Dec. 1, 2024), it’s a good time for a reminder about baiting and feeding bans, put in place in many areas of the state to help stop the spread of chronic wasting disease. CWD is a contagious and fatal disease that can spread in cervid populations via animal-to-animal contact or through contact with materials such as saliva, urine, feces, and carcasses of infected animals.
Bait piles are not the only way CWD spreads from deer to deer, but they increase the risk of transmission. That’s why Wisconsin state law requires the DNR to implement a temporary baiting and feeding ban in any county where a CWD-positive deer is identified.
Deer baiting and feeding is currently prohibited in 61 counties in Wisconsin, including Lincoln County and Marathon County and every county that borders on these two counties except Price County (sharing a border with Lincoln County) and Clark County (sharing a border with Marathon County).
More information on “CWD and the science behind baiting and feeding bans” is available in the fall edition of Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine at: https://shorturl.at/n2txW