For the first time in about a decade, Greene County hunters can take advantage of a certain animal tag.

Greene County Recorder Deb McDonald says the Iowa Department of Natural Resources has issued 100 antlerless deer tags. She explains why the DNR made this decision, after the county hasn’t had antlerless deer tags for so long.

“They’re trying to isolate the incident of Chronic Wasting (Disease) by obviously thinning the population down a little bit. They just want to stop the spread before it gets out of hand. It is a very serious disease that we need to get a handle on.”   

McDonald notes there was one case of Chronic Wasting Disease that was found in a deer carcass in Greene County earlier this year. Greene County is one of 11 other counties with CWD. The disease is 100-percent fatal to deer but harmless to humans.