Radio Tracking Deer

Tal/IL · 02-15-2003, 12:57 PM

I started this post because CheeseHead' s original post on the subject kind of turned off in a different direction.

Anyway, I can see the value of tracking collars to get a handle on how CWD might spread. Consider us in Illinois. As far as I know, all detected cases of CWD have been confined to one specific area in extreme northern Illinois. I can see how it would be useful to know whether infected deer can be expected to remain in a relatively small area or whether they are likely to roam to distant areas.

BowHuntingFool · 02-15-2003, 04:14 PM

So what they are trying to say is that an infected deer won' t roam! That is what deer do is Roam! Infected or not!!!!!!! If they don' t roam chances are they' re DEAD or HANGING ON THE WALL!!!! They will spend a ton of money to find out what WE already know.
Maybe I am wrong, but I think this is a waste of time. !

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logs · 02-15-2003, 04:48 PM

So what they are trying to say is that an infected deer won' t roam!

Normarlly when any biologist uses a tracking device on an animal they are attempt to gather information. They aren' t making statements or drawing any conclusions until the tracking device provides them with movement information.

I wonder if a deer with CWD, since it effects the brian and nervous system, still follows the same travel patterns as a healthy deer? Now these deer are healthy, they track them for a period of time then harvest them or capture them agian, examine them and deterime if thier condition has changed, what area they' ve has been in, been in close contact with deer that have CWD and have since been harvested. If so that tells them something. It may just prove all the nay sayer correct, then agian not. Either way it isn' t that great of an amount and I can not see where it does any harm.

BowHuntingFool · 02-15-2003, 05:14 PM

Maybe infected deer roam even further. What are they going to find out, if DEER ROAM infected or not, back to page one! I believe this disease has been around a long time and we just found out about it. I don' t feel this is a NEW disease! How much testing have the Ill-DNR done? How do you know it is ONLY in EXTREME Ill.? The only thing this hurts is your pocket book.
I' m soory for being negative but thesse f**king war protester got me pissed off. BOMBS AWAY!

Tal/IL · 02-15-2003, 05:32 PM

I don' t think anybody is trying to say anything, except that they don' t currently know how far deer roam. Finding out can give a clue how to prevent the spread of CWD.

There is no doubt that CWD has been around at least since the 1960' s. But, it has just recently shown up in many new areas. Has it always been in those areas, and we are just now discovering it? Or, has it been recently transmitted to those areas? Study of deer habits can give us a clue which is the case.

As for Illinois, this past deer season IDNR took about 4,000 deer heads from hunter killed deer in 36 counties distributed across the state. The last I heard 3 of those tested positive, which brought the total known infected deer to 7, all of which have been located in the northern part of Illinois.

Given that we know there are infected deer in that area, I think it would be useful to know how far we can expect those animals to travel. That would give us an idea how fast this thing can be expected to spread.

cheese-head · 02-15-2003, 08:13 PM

The thing that I feel is really stupid about this study is the fact that they spend all this money and are trying to get acruate results from the data ,yet these deer could be shot at any time in the Eradication Zone. I think If I owned land near these study deer I would blast one and atach the colar to a south bound truck

nub · 02-15-2003, 08:45 PM

I wonder if those collars make good soup?

They are all fair game if they walk through my back yard.

wdhc · 02-15-2003, 11:01 PM

There have been collariing projects all over this country, including Iowa last year. We were asked over 2 years ago, to help fund this project. It was to be up north where certain " researchers" dwell. Then the hand went out to the feds for CWD funding last spring and now the pet project is underway but it is being done under the cover of CWD research in the endemic area.

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BowHuntingFool · 02-16-2003, 08:27 AM

Hey Muckster I don' t think they would collar deer with the disease to track thier movement. If they did it would be stupid. They would just spread more, like a revolving circle. Honestly, I think they already know how deer move, well I' d hope so anyway.

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