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Michigan Deer Hunters Listen Up, New Rules In Place To Halt Disease

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — State regulators are continuing a ban on baiting and feeding deer in Michigan's Lower Peninsula in an effort to prevent spread of chronic wasting disease.

 

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This photo taken on February 1, 2019 shows a deer in Khao Yai National Park, Nakhon Nayok province. - Camo-clad rangers ambush a camp in a lush national park, kicking away machetes and pinning two suspected poachers to the ground -- part of a training scenario as Thai conservationists, outgunned by illegal hunters and outflanked by courts, struggle to stamp out a lucrative wildlife trade. (Photo by Romeo GACAD / AFP) / TO GO WITH STORY Thailand-animal-crime-wildlife-trafficking by Dene-Hern CHEN and Anusak KONGLANG (Photo credit should read ROMEO GACAD/AFP/Getty Images)

The ban was among rules for this year's hunting season adopted by the Michigan Natural Resources Commission last week.

The panel decided to allow baiting and feeding in the Upper Peninsula, except in an area where a deer infected with the disease was found last year. It includes portions of Menominee, Delta and Dickinson counties.

 

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This photo taken on February 1, 2019 shows a deer in Khao Yai National Park, Nakhon Nayok province. - Camo-clad rangers ambush a camp in a lush national park, kicking away machetes and pinning two suspected poachers to the ground -- part of a training scenario as Thai conservationists, outgunned by illegal hunters and outflanked by courts, struggle to stamp out a lucrative wildlife trade. (Photo by Romeo GACAD / AFP) / TO GO WITH STORY Thailand-animal-crime-wildlife-trafficking by Dene-Hern CHEN and Anusak KONGLANG (Photo credit should read ROMEO GACAD/AFP/Getty Images)

Under another rule, scents used to attract deer must be placed where the animals cannot touch or eat them.

Chronic wasting disease first was discovered in a Michigan free-ranging deer in May 2015. Since then, the fatal illness has been confirmed in 120 free-ranging deer in nine Michigan counties.

 

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COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES: Kregg Reynolds of Knoxville, Maryland, tags one of the seven deer he shot at the Middle Patuxent Environmental Area (MPEA) in Columbia, Maryland, 16 December, 2003. Reynolds set a new record for a one-day hunt at the MPEA with his seven kills. Managers of Middle Patuxent organized the hunt to decrease deer population to levels which can be sustained by the environmental area. AFP PHOTO/ NICHOLAS ROBERTS (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS ROBERTS/AFP/Getty Images)

 

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