RE: feeding deer
Sorry, forgot to address CWD in that last reply.
As for CWD, it was confined to Colorado and Wyoming for almost 30 years.
Its spread Eastward is contributed almost exclusively to the shipping of contaminated animals and the ill-advised practice of feeding wildlife.
Other factors include natural migration along new travel corridors which are oftentimes new logging roads made by man and the housing of infected with non-infected animals.
The spread of CWD is not a natural phenomenom, it is definitely being influenced by human interaction with the cervids. A minute amount of research illustrates this point rather convincingly.
Anyone interested should do a google search and then visit the Wisconsin DNR and the CWD Alliance websites. Quality information with links and scientific articles, not just mumbo-jumbo. If your really piqued and want more scientific articles on CWD, go to PubMed and research the articles published in the last 5 years---really good stuff.
Edited by - Strut&Rut on 01/10/2003 13:24:45