UNDATED (WTAQ) – Beginning November 1, baiting and feeding deer will no longer be allowed in Oconto and Menominee counties.
The ban is being implemented by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources following the discovery of chronic wasting disease in a deer killed at Apple Creek Game Farm in Gillett.
According to state law, the DNR is required to impose a baiting and feeding ban for any county within a 10-mile radius of a location where a CWD-infected deer is found.
Both Menominee and Shawano counties are within 10 miles of the game farm, however there has been a ban on baiting and feeding in Shawano County since 2014.
CWD attacks the brains of deer, causing the animals to grow thin, act strangely and eventually die.
The ban, however, does not restrict the sale of bait and feed in the counties for other uses or for use elsewhere. It is also still legal to feed birds and small mammals as long as feeding stations are within 50 yards of a human dwelling and too high for deer or otherwise designed to prevent deer from getting into them.
