LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has voted to establish a chronic wasting disease management zone in 10 north Arkansas counties.
The commission said Friday the zone consists of Boone, Carroll, Johnson, Logan, Madison, Marion, Newton, Pope, Searcy and Yell counties.
The regulations stipulate that feeding wildlife will be prohibited within the 10-county zone. However, baiting to hunt will be allowed Sept. 1 through Dec. 31, when more than 95 percent of Arkansas's deer harvest takes place.
Chronic wasting disease has been discovered in five of the counties since first being found in Arkansas in late February. Since then, the commission has taken steps to slow the spread of the disease.
The disease is a neurological disease that affects animals such as deer, elk and moose.
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STORY: Tenacious, incurable wasting disease takes off in state, infects elk, deer, soil
STORY: New rules aim: To limit spread
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING: Wildlife experts, scientists, hunters and others talk about CWD
MAP: See CWD spread across U.S. over 50 years
EXPLAINER: How CWD spreads, risk to humans
QUIZ: What do you know about CWD?
CLOSER LOOK: CWD, mad-cow and dementia
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