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Old 11-08-2009, 05:56 PM
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Default States Considering Banning Deer Urines - GOOD READ

This may not be new for some, but read this in my Outdoor News magazine. Interesting read, but 9 states are considering banning deer urines due to CWD. In the article I read, it said that a deer urine with CWD poured on the ground, the soil would be contaminated for 18 years !!! The other study shows that once CWD shows up in a state, it has yet to rid itself of it.




When the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department recently put out a draft of its 10-year Big Game Management plan, it contained a suggestion that Vermont consider banning the use of commercial deer scents made from deer urine.






The department argues in the plan that deer-urine based scents could -- perhaps -- pose a health risk to wild deer. In the draft plan, the department suggests that deer urine scents, which use urine captured from captive animals, has the potential to spread chronic wasting disease across the Vermont landscape. And for the record, captive deer facilities have historically had the highest CWD infection rates. Now, for the non-hunting public, the very idea of dousing the soles of your boots or the hems of your pants with deer urine might seem a little, well, whacky. Or at least stinky.
But for hunters, the use of natural scents is an important tool. Urine scents help mask the human smell and doe-in-estrus scents allegedly help attract the attention of rutting bucks. Some sportsmen downplayed the state's suggestion, feeling it a little over the top and rightly pointing out there was little science to suggest the deadly brain and central nervous system disease can be transmitted through urine.
Now, it turns out, Vermont hasn't walked out on this limb alone. Saskatchewan has already banned urine lures and a former Vermont veterinarian, who now serves as the wildlife veterinarian for the Pennsylvania Game Commission, came out last week in favor of banning urine-based lures in the Keystone State.
All told, nine states are considering bans -- and Vermont is one of them
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