Phade, you are right. I shouldn't go and start running around like a chicken with my head cut off. I did get a little worked up over the situation (sorry) but if you lived her you would know the situation in NJ. In short I'll fil you in. It seems our game commision has recently had ther hands tied behind there back by our not so well liked DEP commish Bradley Campbell. He told the state biologist to supress data about a bear hunt because our now dearly departed ex governer got to much flack last time during election time. Well ''they'' (state biologist) went public about the politically driven statements that the commish said and now the biologist are going infront of a state review because Bradley got mad at them so he retaliated by saying that the wildlife commission is unfairly represented by general public because some of our biologist hunt themselves. All I am saying is that in NJ things aren't run in the best intrest of solid wildlife data and reporting and it frightens the hell out of me to what the politico's of NJ would do in a CWD situation. I have even heard MR. Yox talk about NJ and its issues before. Compared to NY we live in a 1/2 acre wood lot. The zone that had CWD in Wisconsin is half the size of NJ and they went on a erradication type alert to wipe em out. So it would be devastaing to NJ and all of the East for that matter. I told a buddy of mine about the findings in NY and he said that i called it to a T, I said the year they would find it and also the states they would find it in the east. I believe they will next find it in PA within the next two hunting seasons and in three to four years it will pop up in NJ. I hate to be a pessimist about this but you have to look at the fact that it is spreading. I also believe (and again I an no biologist) that deer contracted CWD from either A. sticking there noses in cow dung from cows that were infected or B. eating out of infected feed troths intended for livestock that either had ground up cows that were infected or troths containing ground up goats that had scrapie. Okay, I said what I had to say!

Now I am just waiting for Bill to rip me a new one and give me a whooping for my comments.