Uhh Lone wolf, Sparse whitetail population on the Plateau? Have they all died off? Been hunted out? That's where I was hatched and raised and I grew up seeing 20 to 50 deer any time I went out to a LOT of places. It's only been 3 or 4 years since I hunted that area and I saw the usual many numbers of deer and they were pretty much all fat and sassy. Our property straddled Roane and Cumberland counties. Deer up in the mountains are anything but sparse! Ask any of the soy bean farmers if they are sparse!

As far as the CWD, like Flags, I am not as worried as SOME people BUT it is a very devastating disease with the high probability of mutation so it should be a concern for whitetail biologists to concentrate their efforts on eliminating. Key concerns should be focused on deer in limited habitats where they congregate in close proximity at feeding and watering sites like suburban deer. Young bucks in these areas are a concern as well since they could very well contract the disease and then get chased off and end up infecting another herd. While it's not quite yet a "chicken little" the sky is falling problem, we may want to start getting the helmets out.