The province is conducting a limited harvest of up to 25 deer in areas of southeast B.C. where two cases of a fatal wildlife disease was recently discovered near Cranbrook.
In January, lab tests came back positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD); one was a female white tail deer that was roadkill on Highway 3 south of Cranbrook, while the second was from a male mule deer harvested in the South Country area.
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