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o Antlers attached to a cleaned skull plate or cleaned skull where no tissue is
attached to the skull
o Cleaned teeth
o Hides and tanned products
o Finished taxidermy and antler products
o All meat processors will need to be permitted in order to insure compliance.
 Establish permit system for meat processors.
o No processor may accept and process bone-in meat from both within and
outside the HRZ.
 Issue management tags to cooperating landowners to harvest white-tailed deer
outside of the normal season structure within the HRZ.
 Finalize carcass disposal regulations.

Buffer Zone (BZ) – 25 mile radius from a confirmed CWD positive cervid
 Schedule routine highway surveillance, during which roadkill cervids are sampled.
o Solicit assistance from Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT),
Department of Public Safety (DPS), and/or county highway department and
sheriff’s office.
 Create and utilize voluntary check stations to sample hunter‐harvested deer.
o Recruit assistance from veterinarians, taxidermists, universities, etc.
 Practices that cause unnatural concentration of animals may be prohibited.
o Examples: mineral blocks or licks, mineral troughs, etc.

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