CWD detected in NC

[weekender21]

Oh goody

https://www.ncwildlife.org/Connect-...GE5Re71NaiU2Eg1x9lgevftfhfTwkNmQIWyTk0uJyZOZM


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[Charleston Treeman]

Yikes. No bueno.

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[Mennoniteman]

I'm in a CWD area in PA and it has not been the terrible end of deer hunting that was predicted. In fact, if it wasn't for the added rules that give law enforcement more opportunities to fine hunters, and an excuse for wildlife biologists to lower herd numbers, we wouldn't even know that it exists. In other words, we wouldn't know it if we weren't told that it's so.

 

[weekender21]

I’ve been tracking it loosely for a few decades and more seriously the last few years. I know the sky isn’t necessarily falling but CWD isn’t something I wish to deal with. There is still a ton we don’t fully understand and lots of emotional perspectives.


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[THE LLC]

The Covid 19 of deer hunting. Amish didn’t catch Covid because they don’t have TV’s!

 

[SwampCat]

I’ve been tracking it loosely for a few decades and more seriously the last few years. I know the sky isn’t necessarily falling but CWD isn’t something I wish to deal with. There is still a ton we don’t fully understand and lots of emotional perspectives.


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I have done the same thing - I read everything I can on the subject. I am not yet in a CWD zone, but it is creeping my way. My take away, it is an odd disease in that in many states - including my own - we kill the deer to save the deer. On the other hand, Wisconsin - which does little now to influence CWD, has maintained hunter harvest numbers and is still near the top, if not the top state for B&C trophy whitetails. The next state south, in Illinois, they employee paid sharpshooters to kill extra deer - yet CWD is still spreading in Illinois - as it is in every state.

 

[sagittarius]

http://www.uwyo.edu/uw/news/2016/09...e-of-white-tailed-deer-declines-from-cwd.html

https://wyofile.com/study-chronic-wasting-disease-kills-19-deer-annually/

https://wyofile.com/state-vet-combat-cwd-reducing-elk-feeding/

 

[SwampCat]

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http://www.uwyo.edu/uw/news/2016/09...e-of-white-tailed-deer-declines-from-cwd.html

https://wyofile.com/study-chronic-wasting-disease-kills-19-deer-annually/

https://wyofile.com/state-vet-combat-cwd-reducing-elk-feeding/

I know the infection rate is increasing in WI. I guess the question becomes, are we better to shoot them down in a short period of time, or let cwd reduce the herd over time.

“the biologist said I sure wish deer would develop immunity to CWD - and God said I keep sending you deer with immunity genes, but you keep killing them before they have a chance to breed”


I do appreciate the links. Always interested to read anything cwd.

 

[weekender21]

I have done the same thing - I read everything I can on the subject. I am not yet in a CWD zone, but it is creeping my way. My take away, it is an odd disease in that in many states - including my own - we kill the deer to save the deer. On the other hand, Wisconsin - which does little now to influence CWD, has maintained hunter harvest numbers and is still near the top, if not the top state for B&C trophy whitetails. The next state south, in Illinois, they employee paid sharpshooters to kill extra deer - yet CWD is still spreading in Illinois - as it is in every state.

CWD is scary because of the two big what if’s.

1) What if the spread and higher prevalence rate negatively impacts herd health and eventually numbers.

2) What if CWD jumps to humans just like other prion diseases (mad cow and scrapie’s).

Hopefully neither of the what if’s ever materialize but the impact is definitely significant enough that we should support research in my opinion.


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[SwampCat]

CWD is scary because of the two big what if’s.

1) What if the spread and higher prevalence rate negatively impacts herd health and eventually numbers.

2) What if CWD jumps to humans just like other prion diseases (mad cow and scrapie’s).

Hopefully neither of the what if’s ever materialize but the impact is definitely significant enough that we should support research in my opinion.


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I agree 100%. It is such a slow acting disease. It may take 100 years before deer herds are negatively affected if left unchecked. In areas of Wyoming, where cwd is known to have existed for at least 50 years, they estimate a decline of 50% in some mule deer herds - which they attribute largely to cwd. I would not doubt in some areas of strict cwd regulations like Illinois or Minnesota, the deer herd has declined 50% in a few years do to liberal limits and hunter harvest due to cwd regulation - and still cwd continues to pop up in new areas.

 

[SwampCat]

“In my population, Game and Fish already went ahead and eliminated the doe-fawn season,” she said. “They [Converse deer] don’t need another cause of mortality. All I say is they should continue to not hunt does and fawns from that population.”

I find this statement interesting in one of the wyoming studies. This is almost exactly the opposite that most game & fish agencies employ as a cwd control technique. My own state liberalized antlerless harvest.

https://wyofile.com/study-chronic-wasting-disease-kills-19-deer-annually/

 

[sagittarius]

- "and still cwd continues to pop up in new areas."

Keep in mind, deer are not the only vector for spreading CWD. Predators feeding on CWD infected carcasses. Hawks, eagles, and vultures can feed on a infected carcass and migrate hundreds of miles away spreading CWD.

 

[SwampCat]

Keep in mind, deer are not the only vector for spreading CWD. Predators feeding on CWD infected carcasses. Hawks, eagles, and vultures can feed on a infected carcass and migrate hundreds of miles away spreading CWD.

yes, and can be transmitted in hay. Point being, lower deer density has not proven to stop the spread of cwd.