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TWRA presents options for chronic wasting disease management; agency recommends banning feeding in positive counties and adjusting the management zone
Summary
Agency staff outlined four options for counties with new chronic wasting disease detections — including no action, agency recommendation to prohibit feeding in positive counties and to adjust management zone boundaries, and two buffer/unit alignment approaches — and asked commissioners for direction for formal rulemaking notice.
At a public meeting in Dyersburg, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency staff briefed commissioners on recent chronic wasting disease (CWD) detections and presented options for how the agency might respond by rule. The agency reported three newly positive counties — Williamson, Dixon and Humphreys — each with a single positive animal so far, and said additional test results remain pending.
Agency staff summarized four options for the commission’s consideration: no action (which would automatically expand the CWD management zone under current rules), the agency’s…
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