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Environment
Park service may kill deer to control diseasePublished 11/20/08
HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Gunfire could ring out again at Maryland's Civil War battlefields under National Park Service proposals for detecting and controlling chronic wasting disease, a contagious illness fatal to white-tailed deer.
The agency on Wednesday announced public meetings Dec. 3 at the Antietam National Battlefield near Sharpsburg and Dec. 4 at Monocacy National Battlefield near Frederick to receive public comments on alternatives for combatting CWD, which has been found in neighboring West Virginia.
Three of the four alternatives could involve killing scores of healthy-appearing deer. One includes an option to destroy...
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