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Nebraska conducts CWD surveillance in 4 to 7 regions each year, rotating to a different part of the state each season.
Authorities detected the cases in Concordia, St Landry, and Tangipahoa parishes after tracing them back to a CWD-positive deer farm in Jefferson Davis Parish.
One of the two adult bucks was harvested by a hunter, and the other was identified on a deer-breeding farm.
The Fremont County deer was found west of Percival, near the Missouri River, while the Pottawattamie County deer was taken northwest of Avoca.
One of the 2 infected white-tailed bucks was found near Greenfield in Hennepin County; the other was taken near Hawley in Clay County.
The 2.5-year-old buck was found on private land in Lanier County, in the south-central part of the state.
The exact degree of population declines, however, will depend on local hunter harvest and recruitment rates, the report authors say.
The animal was found dead on the Scab Creek Feedground in Elk Hunt Area 98 at the end of December.
The buck was harvested in Millbrook Township in the west-central part of the state.
The deer was in the Hog Heaven Management Zone of the reservation, located in the western part of the state.
