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10-26-2002 | 09:07 AM

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TJD

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RE: CWD total to 40 deer, 2.57% Infection rate.

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quotequote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>I think "Antler333" had a game farm where he lost ALL of his animals do to CWD. And sounds like he is basically supporting the eradication of deer down by Mt Horeb.<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>

Huh? Here's what he says...<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>As such, Randy's right, the Wis gov't probably has knee jerked and gone overboard. Now is wiping out 25K of deer necessary....well, they seem to think so. Do I always trust the govt opinion, NO, but as John Q Public I don’t want them to sit on their duff either, SO what is one to do and seem proactive? Well, Get rid of the disease animals. But how? You cant tell the sick ones from the healthy ones? ….So go to the Vietnam method….kill them all.

Personally I rather see the time and money go into better concentrated study, on a variety of alternative ideas. Better to derive a cause and solution, and then methodically implement that sound strategy. That is much more logical then to run off willy-nilly. But a govt knee jerk is a product of our litigious society. <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>

...and...<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Now, as to culling helping to stem the disease. I do not like the idea of total herd elimination but do advocate selective culling.<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote> What the DNR wants to do here is tantamount to total herd elimination in the Mt. Horeb area. Hence the term eradication zone. In my opinion, that is the problem. If they were calling for a reduction in herd size in the area, that would be one thing. That would make some sense. But killing off a herd in order to save it?...

With regard to you other statement <BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>If it is only detected in 4% of the deer out west in Wy. and Co. why do they support the Wi. DNR for eradication. Could there be more of an infection rate that what there telling us? You guy's won't believe your own DNR but you will believe another states DNR?<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote> Not sure what you mean there. I believe the WDNR when they say that they have found less than 3% infection rate here, and I believe WY when they say that the average incidence is 4 to 5%. AND it is precisely that fact that leads to a somewhat contradictory conclusion by our DNR. Herd density is higher here, but rate of infection is lower. According to the wave of hysteria that the DNR started back in the Spring, we were supposed to kill all of the deer in the Mt. Horeb area and kill them now!! Remember how we had to start shooting deer in June because there was no time to waste? Now, why do the game agencies out West support the WDNR's move? Maybe the same reason that 30 years ago, game regulator nationwide didn't have the foresight to see that not shooting enough does would lead to overpopulation of the herd. But of course, most game agencies agreed that it was better to kill antlered deer only. What's that phrase: Birds of a feather flock together?

Muckster, the problem is not that the DNR wants to reduce the herd in the Mt. Horeb area. That can be shown to be a prudent move, given the circumstances. But to even try the ridiculous, complete elimination, is foolish. Again, why the need for such drastic action when the rate of infection is in the single digits, here as well as out West? Why do it when we have no evidence that even taking that step will do anything at all to get rid of CWD? Why set a drastic precedent that says that in any area that CWD is found, the DNR wants each and every deer shot? Imagine that after this season we find thru testing that isolated cases of CWD are found in pockets around the state: a case near Eau Claire, one near Green Bay, one near Marshfield, and one near Waukesha. Then what? According to DNR policy, we would then make about 80% of the state an "eradication zone". If successful, the deer population of Wisconsin would probably be about the same as...oh, maybe Hawaii??

Boy! What a great idea! We'd have a scant number of deer, still have CWD, and wouldn't have to worry about "too many hunters", since license sales would probably plummet from over 1/2 million to less than 100,000.

Hope you like squirrel hunting!

Edited by - TJD on 10/26/2002 10:12:07

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