[h=1]DNR Sharpshooter Hunted Deer on Heneberry Forest Preserve Land on January 29th[/h]
A sharpshooter from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources hunted deer on Kendall County Forest Preserve land last Friday afternoon. The forest preserve does not allow deer hunting on its property.
Kendall County Forest Preserve President Jeff Wehrli told the commissioners that the DNR hunting occurred at the Henneberry Woods Forest Preserve on Cherry Road near Oswego.
A DNR sharpshooter was harvesting deer on private property in order to check for Chronic Wasting Disease, which is a brain disease that affects deer and is transmittable.
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According to IDNR Wildlife Biologist Joe Rogus, the incidence of Chronic Wasting Disease should be 1 to 2% of the deer population; however Rogus told the forest preserve commissioners on January 13th that six out of 19 deer samples tested positive for CWD in the Oswego zone of Kendall County....
