Originally Posted by
Glenn
It's been mixed from what I can find. Some states go scorched earth in the positive area and surrounding areas with bonus CWD tags/seasons and some eliminate un natural gathering spots like bait stations and mineral licks/troughs.
There's a fed bill to fund CWD research with a call for federal involvement. Makes me kind of twitchy. I believe more research is definitely needed but any time uncle sugar gets involved the fecal level rises exponentially. I want resources managed at the state level. We start getting feds involved with America's most hunted game species and no telling what we'll wind up with.
The funky part is CWD is a real disease. Of that there is zero doubt. But there is tremendous debate on how it is and will effect our deer herds long term. It has a long incubation period. Young bucks with a wider home range and displacement tend to be the biggest spreaders. Even in CWD hot zones there has been no noticeable change in population despite increased harvest. But what has been seen is a change in age class. A deer infected at birth day 1 most likely won't start showing symptoms until 2-3 years of age. So positive asymptomatic deer can still breed. But once they show symptoms they aren't long for this world. Still lots to learn about it and the long term effects though.
Shouldn't be much of a problem here then. Most deer are between 2 and 3 years of age. So we should be fine! Lol
“Duck hunting gives a man a chance to see the loneliest places …blinds washed by a rolling surf, blue and gold autumn marshes, …a rice field in the rain, flooded pin-oak forests or any remote river delta. In duck hunting the scene is as important as the shooting.” ~ Erwin Bauer, The Duck Hunter’s Bible, 1965
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