ELKADER – Johnson’s Reception Hall in Elkader hosted a standing room only crowd of hunters, landowners and area residents on Monday night who were there to learn about chronic wasting disease and then gave their thoughts on how they wanted to address it.
The meeting was prompted after a deer harvested during the 2016 hunting season in west central Clayton County tested positive for chronic wasting disease. It was the first wild deer that tested positive for chronic wasting disease outside of Allamakee County.
Dr. Dale Garner, who oversees the Conservation and Recreation Division of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and has been involved with monitoring for the disease in Iowa since its arrival in Wisconsin in 2001, was the main speaker during the nearly three hour meeting.
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