Forestville Mystery Cave State Park is a state park in Minnesota. It contains the village of Forestville, which has been restored to a 19th-century appearance. The Minnesota Historical Society operates it as a historic site. Below ground the park contains Mystery Cave, the state's longest cave, which is open to the public. The park is between Spring Valley and Preston, Minnesota. Continue reading... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Chronic Wasting Disease Threatens Deer Population: What You Should Know
The deer hunting season in the United States has started off on a shaky foundation, with more animals testing positive for chronic wasting disease in different states.
Infected Deer In Minnesota The CWD breakout in Minnesota is reportedly expanding within the state's southeastern zone.
Seven new cases of CWD are currently being investigated in Fillmore County, where 11 other white-tailed deer were confirmed to be infected during the surveillance, which began during the hunting season last year.
Minnesota’s wildlife research manager Lou Cornicelli said that three of the new cases were found in deer killed by hunters in the Forestville-Mystery Cave State Park. The area is around 7 miles southwest of the main cluster of the diseased deer, which were hunted between Lanesboro and Preston.
Cornicelli added that detecting seven new cases from a sample of 700 hunted deer, which indicated a 1 percent rate of infection, was less worrisome than the fact that three of the infected deer were discovered in a state park located quite a distance away from the actual cluster.
“I don’t know what it means yet,” Cornicelli said.
Minnesota’s deer population, comprising of more than 1 million whitetails, was said to be free of CWD until the infection outbreak was detected near Preston. The Department of Natural Resources hoped to contain the epidemic with an aggressive thinning of the white-tailed deer in Fillmore County, backed up by detailed CWD testing of newly hunted animals.
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