COLUMBIA — When Missouri confirmed its first case of chronic wasting disease in a captive white-tailed buck at the Linn County Heartland Wildlife Ranch in February 2010, state and federal officials soon agreed on the need to kill all of the deer in an infected 800-acre pasture on the property.
US Department of Agriculture ends funding for chronic wasting disease
Friday, June 22, 2012 | 6:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 9:02 p.m. CDT, Sunday, June 24, 2012
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