The preliminary statewide harvest total is in line with our projection that harvest would be close to last year's record-setting archery deer harvest of 63,630. |
We were somewhat surprised to find these two cases in Ogle County because no cases had been detected there previously despite very intensive sampling. We've sampled nearly 2,000 deer in Ogle County since 2003 and these are the only two cases we have found there to date. We are still awaiting the results of approximately 350 other samples from Ogle County taken this fall. |