heresa quick thought, if the deer population is so out of control, maybe they should let the disease go for a while. im not sure if it can be passed to humans or not, if it can that might not be the best idea, but my thinkin is that if it were such a huge problem i dont think the population would be way out of control like they say it is. i gotta give the dnr some slack for their population estimates, i dont think too many people realize how hard it is to corrrectly estimate the herd size of an animal like whitetail deer. that being said, i think it would take a conservation miracle to unite the entire state on a management plan and have it implemented effectively. i'll be going into the environmental science field in college this fall, and hope to learn a bunch of stuff and hopefully pass it on to everybody here. id say a big problem is lack of knowledge and lack of hunter participation in legislation. right now i hunt in an area not yet affected by CWD, but who knows, 20 years from now it might be state-wide, maybe throughout the midwest. it might take an epidemic across one of the richest deer hunting areas in the world to get the manpower focused on a cure rather than a bandaid. just my 0.02