Forest County ranch deer tests positive for wasting disease

MADISON – A deer on a Forest County hunting ranch has tested positive for chronic wasting disease.

Tests confirm the 6-year-old whitetail buck was infected, state agriculture officials said in a news release Monday.

The deer was born on a Marinette County breeding farm and moved to the ranch in 2014. The farm and ranch have been quarantined since June after a doe on the farm tested positive.