In Saskatchewan, their have been 4 documented cases in the wild deer population, all have been mule deer in 2 seperate zones. In those areas the DNR has offered CWD tags to local farmers or gone with a public CWD hunt for mature does of either whitetail or mule deer. I have heard numbers of tags from 5-15,000 were available. Plus in the future area farmer that have large populations of deer will continue to get these free of charge tags to hand out to hunters if they choose, those numbers are 20-100 being stated. They are serious about stopping CWD, even with the small number our DNR are not even in a wait and see mode, like the states you mentioned were in and now they face a critical situation...such as a mass slaughter. It does seem like averkill, but they must try to stop CWD and it's spread. If that means hunters or professional shooters, it appears it will be done.