Article: NEW CWD KILL GOAL CALLED STILL TOO HIGH DNR WANTS TO LEAVE FIVE DEER PER SQUARE MILE IN CWD ZONES.(LOCAL/WISCONSIN)

Byline: Robert Imrie Associated Press

A new state plan to stop trying to kill every deer in southern Wisconsin where a fatal brain disease was found has drawn lukewarm support from a landowner group that's been critical of the 2-year-old eradication strategy.

"It is a step in the right direction, but they have a long ways to walk yet," Mark Peck of Arena said Tuesday. "If they had a reasonable goal, more people would buy into it."

Last week, the Natural Resources Board unanimously set the target population goal to less than five deer per square mile in the areas where chronic wasting disease has been found. The Department of Natural Resources ...

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