Ramsey County sets no general wildlife-feeding ordinance, but Minnesota bans deer feeding in disease-management areas under DNR rules, and several Ramsey County cities prohibit feeding deer or waterfowl. St. Paul restricts feeding that creates a nuisance or attracts rodents.
There is no single Ramsey County wildlife-feeding ordinance for residents. Two layers apply instead. First, the Minnesota DNR prohibits or restricts recreational deer feeding, especially within chronic-wasting-disease surveillance and management areas, under Minn. Stat. §97A and DNR rule. Second, individual cities regulate feeding: St. Paul's nuisance provisions bar feeding that attracts rats or creates unsanitary conditions, and suburbs such as Shoreview, White Bear Lake, and Roseville have adopted ordinances banning deer or waterfowl feeding to reduce nuisance and disease. Check both the DNR's current deer-feeding status for your area and your city's nuisance and feeding rules.
Illegal deer feeding is a DNR petty misdemeanor or misdemeanor with fines; city feeding-nuisance violations draw code-enforcement citations and abatement orders.
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