The River Falls Sportsman's Club, the Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources and City of River Falls are again offering deer hunters a safe, local solution for disposal of butchered animal remains during this year's bow and gun deer hunting season.

Successful hunters can also dispose of deer remains at a roll-off sited near Plummer Concrete, just east of Ellsworth.

The River Falls roll-off is located near the City's Wastewater Treatment Facility, at the south end of Apollo Road. The collection site will remain open through the November deer gun season.

The containers are accessible 24 hours a day.

Users are asked to only discard animal offal -- no junk please. The areas are closely monitored.

The carcass disposal is intended to help minimize the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease, a fatal, infectious nervous system disease found in the deer family. Evidence shows CWD can be spread by improper disposal of carcasses.

The first case of CWD in Pierce County was discovered in a deer near Spring Valley last year. This prompted an extension of a three-year ban on baiting in Pierce, St. Croix and Dunn counties.

The WDNR is asking area hunters to help monitor CWD spread by submitting samples through 24/7 kiosks located at the Spring Valley Cenex, the former Speedway in Ellsworth, Mill's Fleet Farm in Hudson, Baldwin DNR Service Center, and the Menomonie DNR office. Sample kits are available at each site, and pre-registration for testing can be completed when you register your harvest via the GoWild.gov website.

CWD results are available in your Go Wild harvest history. You can also look up your results on the DNR website as soon as they become available. To view CWD results on the website, you will need your customer ID or CWD sample barcode number. Results are also sent via email.

CWD prions can remain in the environment for a long time, so other animals can contract CWD from the environment even after an infected deer or elk has died, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

For more information, visit https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/wildlifehabitat/carcass.html