Deer hunters in B.C. are being warned after a devastating disease was found for the first time in the province. Two deer were found with chronic wasting disease in the Kootenays. It’s a devastating disease with no known cure that has already affected herds in Alberta, Montana, and Idaho.
Paul Johnson has the story.
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