CWD: Passive or aggressive response?

But on Wednesday, Dr. James Kroll, a deer specialist from Texas, spoke at Chatfield's Potter Auditorium and told a crowd of about 200 people that the DNR's approach is likely to fail. He contends that CWD is not particularly contagious and over the long term will have little, if any, impact on Minnesota's deer herd.


Kroll has his supporters, and he isn't a newcomer to this battle. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker appointed Kroll as deer "trustee" in 2011, which gave him authority over how the state dealt with its own CWD outbreak. Under Kroll's leadership, Wisconsin essentially stopped fighting the disease, opting instead for a passive approach that does little more than monitor the situation.

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