From TWRA Facebook page:
"Can Transport:
You can transport whole form high-risk county to high-risk county and from high-risk county to positive counties, but you must debone, etc if you wanted to take an animal through a positive county from one high-risk to another (e.g. McNairy to Shelby) since you pass through positive counties and it would be difficult to determine the origin of the animal if stopped.
Cannot Transport:
You cannot transport whole from positive counties to high-risk counties, from positive counties to outside Unit CWD or from high-risk to outside of Unit CWD without following the carcass export requirements."
Public lands opened to the August 3-day hunt:
Meeman-Shelby State Park and State Natural Area
Eagle Lake Refuge
Wolf River Wildlife Management Area and Ghost River State Natural Area
Chickasaw State Forest Wildlife Management Area
Gray's Creek Wildlife Management Area
Oak Dain
Big Hill Pond State Park
Tull Bottom Wildlife Management Area
South Fork Refuge
Spring Creek Wildlife Management Area
Colonial Forest V Durand Wildlife Management Area
Fort Ridge Wildlife Management Area
Lower Hatcher National Wildlife Refuge (Tipton Co.portion only)
Earn-A-Buck
– TN's antlered deer bag limit (2) did not change; therefore it still applies to hunters hunting Unit CWD as
well as the rest of the state.
– Hunters, regardless of where they are hunting in the state, are able to harvest two antler deer during the
2019-2020 season without having to earn them.
– Only hunters hunting in Unit CWD counties may earn additional bucks for harvest.
– Unit CWD hunters may earn up to two bucks (i.e., antlered deer) for harvest, in addition to the statewide
antler deer bag limit of two.
– Earned bucks are received by harvesting two Unit CWD antlerless deer, checking them in, submitting
them for CWD testing, and being notified by TWRA.
– Earn-A-Buck will increase the number of deer (does and bucks) harvested and the numbers of deer tested
for CWD. Increased testing will give TWRA a more complete understanding of CWD in TN.
Mandatory physical check stations on November 2-3 and November 9-10 for Unit CWD counties except
Hardeman and Fayette.
– These check stations enable TWRA to test more deer for CWD.
– The increased testing will result in a more complete understanding of CWD in TN.
– Hardeman and Fayette counties are excluded from mandatory testing because we already have a lot of
data in those counties. Testing will be voluntary there and we will provide many ways that people can
have their deer tested regardless of where they are in Unit CWD.
Hardeman and Fayette counties are excluded from mandatory testing because we already have a lot of
data in those counties. Testing will be voluntary there and we will provide many ways that people can
have their deer tested regardless of where they are in Unit CWD.
