{"id":5263,"date":"2019-04-30T15:10:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T20:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/?p=5263"},"modified":"2019-04-30T15:10:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T20:10:45","slug":"bounties-for-deer-kills-to-fight-cwd-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/bounties-for-deer-kills-to-fight-cwd-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Bounties For Deer Kills To fight CWD Spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MINOCQUA<\/strong> &#8211; A new plan calls for paying Wisconsin hunters a thousand dollars or more for killing a deer with chronic wasting disease.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters believe the &#8220;bounty&#8221; system could slow the spread of the deadly illness. The proposal appears to have support in the state, but has others concerned about cost.<\/p>\n<p>About 57 percent of voters at this spring&#8217;s Conservation Congress hearings backed the plan. It would give hunters between $750 and $1,250 dollars if they killed a deer found to have CWD after a test.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Folks are getting very worried about what this disease can do to our Wisconsin deer hunting culture,&#8221; said Mike Foy, a retired DNR wildlife biologist. &#8220;If we don&#8217;t find some way to slow down or stop this disease, I think that the deer hunting economy is clearly at risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjfw.com\/storydetails\/20190429181749\/bounties_for_deer_kills_survey_shows_support_for_plan_to_fight_cwd_spread&amp;display=video\">Bounties for deer kills? Survey shows support for plan to fight CWD spread<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINOCQUA &#8211; A new plan calls for paying Wisconsin hunters a thousand dollars or more for killing a deer with chronic wasting disease. Supporters believe the &#8220;bounty&#8221; system could slow the spread of the deadly illness. The proposal appears to have support in the state, but has others concerned about cost. About 57 percent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-news-release","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5264,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263\/revisions\/5264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}