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EHD Killing Deer
By Steve Rogers, OutdoorChannel.com
Wildlife officials in Wisconsin and Missouri are blaming a growing number of dead deer on an outbreak of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease.
Meanwhile, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources has reached an agreement with the owner of a hunting preserve to depopulate the facility of all deer and elk over the next several months following the state’s first positive detection of chronic wasting disease there.
As of mid-September, the Missouri Department of Conservation had received reports of approximately 2,800 dead deer from throughout most of the state, with EHD being the suspected cause. Osage County has been hit the hardest with 193 reported...