Game, Fish And Parks Offering License Buy Backs In Areas Impacted By Hemorrhagic Disease

PIERRE, (KCCR) — The Game, Fish and Parks Commission was updated this month on what wildlife officials are calling an outbreak of hemorrhagic disease. Senior Wildlife Biologist Byron Buckley first updated the Commission in September and says cases have grown…

Buckley says the current count is nearly 400 impacted animals…

Wildlife Division Director Tom Kirschenmann says they are offering a license buy back in impacted zones and counties…

Buckley says the outbreak should subside with the first hard freeze that will kill off the midges that carry the disease.