Originally Posted by
huntingforme
I believe that Colorado and Wyoming went down this road. The fact is that without destroying the deer population and allowing the spores in the soil to die off this will not go away. My question is, at what cost do we attack this issue?
http://host.madison.com/sports/recre...cc4c002e0.html
"Colorado's worst infection is a mule-deer herd near Boulder. Today, 41% of the bucks and 20 percent of does have CWD. Its infected deer have a life expectancy of 1.6 years more years, while its healther deer live about 5.2 more years. That's likely why this unhunted herd declined 50% since the late 1980s."
"In 1997, Wyomings endemic area had an 11 percent infection rate for muledeer. It hit 15% in 1998, slipped to 13% in 2000 and worsened annually until surpassing 35% in 2007. Wyoming's worst region, Hunt ARea 65, now has a 43% infection rate."
See Wyomings CWD positive map ...
http://gf.state.wy.us/downloads/pdf/...ated2-2008.pdf
"... Clausen offered information, which appeared to be in response to the HRC, that showed a map of CWD in Wyoming units, noting a
decline of white-tailed deer populations.
"(Wyoming's) Unit 65 a few years ago had 16,000 to 17,000 deer, but the current estimate there is
50 percent of that," Clausen said. The area had had no significant antlerless harvest, and the number of 4-and 5-year-old bucks on one ranch in the unit, which manages for trophies, are not being seen. ..."
http://www.wisconsinoutdoornews.com/...ews/news04.txt