https://www.pinejournal.com/northland-outdoors/7255637-Deer-hunters-to-see-changes-as-chronic-wasting-disease-protocols-roll-out-in-Minnesota

Hunters will be required to test for chronic wasting disease over the opening weekend of the firearm deer hunting season in regions where the state has tracked the deadly illness in deer.Written By: Dana Ferguson | 1:44 pm, Oct. 27, 2021

A whitetail buck in the final stages of the always-fatal chronic wasting disease. Contributed / Warden Micheal Hopper, Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks & Tourism

ST. PAUL — Minnesota Department of Natural Resources officials said they’re gearing up for the fall 2021 firearm deer hunting season and urging hunters to make a plan to test for chronic wasting disease before they go out into the field.

Less than two weeks before opening day for the firearm hunting season, DNR Wildlife Section Manager Kelly Straka on Wednesday, Oct. 27, told lawmakers that hunters in some regions of the state will have to prepare for mandatory sampling for the fatal brain…