FWP will hold a pair of meetings in two Hi-Line towns to explain CWD recently discovered north of Chester

The meetings are set for 7:00 p.m., December 21, in Chester and Havre. The Chester meeting will be in the town’s high school auditorium, 511 Main St. The Havre meeting will be at the Hill County Electric Coop, 2121 U.S. Highway 2 NW.

At both meetings, FWP officials will present a background on the disease, what is known about the disease along the state’s northern border and what the department’s CWD draft management plan identifies for actions and management in the future.

A mule deer buck shot by a hunter November 12 about 30 miles north of Chester near the Canadian border has tested positiv...