Originally Posted by
Oldtimr
gjersey, there was a captive herd that was depopulated in PA and the owners took the fence down and it was in area where wild deer would go into that property. The department of Ag didn't make them put the fence back up. We have had deer escape from captive breeding facilities and at least one of those facilities turned up positive for CWD. This kind of crap along with the surreptitious movement of deer for breeding is why there is a real danger to our wild deer from captive breeding operations, regardless of what a couple of people here are saying.
Right on Oldtimer, when the CWD scare broke out in WI years ago lots of us had our deer checked with ZERO results, the CWD was in the southern portion of the state around known CWD high fence operations. Now that a deer breeder let deer escape from his operation into our woods guess what will happen? Near Portage WI in 06 the state bought out the punk who bred and released CWD, just so they could keep the fences up as it's in the soil. No CWD wasn't always in my part of the state it is here because of high fence deer operations.