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ORIGINAL: lifesadrag

Where is Kent co.?, upper or lower Mich.

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In the event CWD is documented within Michigan or within 50 mile of Michigan’s border with another state or Canadian province, the MDNR Director shall issue an interim order banning the use of bait and banning the feeding of deer and elk within the peninsula adjacent to the adjoining state or province with CWD or containing CWD.

(taken from the CWD Contingency Plan dated August 26, 2002)[/align]

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CWD deer prompts state to ban baiting

State officials have discovered the first deer with Chronic Wasting Disease in Michigan at a facility in Kent County.

In responding to the plan, the DNR is banning all feeding and baiting in the Lower Peninsula.

Chronic Wasting Disease

CWD is a fatal neurological disease that affects deer, elk and moose. Most cases of the disease have been in western states, but in the past several years, it has spread to some midwestern and eastern states.

Infected animals display abnormal behaviors, progressive weight loss and physical debilitation.

Current evidence suggests that the disease is transmitted through infectious, self-multiplying proteins (prions) contained in saliva and other fluids of infected animals. Susceptible animals can acquire CWD by direct exposure to these fluids or also from contaminated environments. Once contaminated, research suggests that soil can remain a source of infection for long periods of time, making CWD a particularly difficult disease to eradicate.

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ORIGINAL: huntingson

You MI guys just want to cry all the time;) You blame baiting, but OH has allowed baitiing for 10-15 years now and if anything the "herd" has gotten stronger. Let's face it, you "wolverines" are just a bunch of moronic turds who can't find your collective ass with both hands:D

Seriuosly though, why has baiting been so detrimental there and not here in Ohio? Looking at it objectively... Is it just a crutch for MI hunters?

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ORIGINAL: huntingson

You MI guys just want to cry all the time;) You blame baiting, but OH has allowed baitiing for 10-15 years now and if anything the "herd" has gotten stronger. Let's face it, you "wolverines" are just a bunch of moronic turds who can't find your collective ass with both hands:D

Seriuosly though, why has baiting been so detrimental there and not here in Ohio? Looking at it objectively... Is it just a crutch for MI hunters?

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ORIGINAL: grneyemonstr

A crutch for what?
Youmake no sense. Once again nothing worth a damn came out of Ohio. Enough said.

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ORIGINAL: Germ

We tend to bait different[8D]

More like mass feedings, guys use to dump semi loads of beats, yes semi loads of beats in the middle of the National Forest.

You would have to lived it and hunted it understand sir buckeye

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ORIGINAL: huntingson

Ahhh, did I make you cry??? I am so sorry for offending you, but it was a JOKE!!! Seriously, southern Canada jsut got another downgrade from this true AMERICAN!!! :D

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ORIGINAL: grneyemonstr

Cry? takes a bit more than that to make me cry, but seriously im just a bit bitter with ohio after last year. But Rich Rod has something for us "Wolverines" that will make it all better<----- that is us Wolverine crybabies owning you buckeyes

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