It baffles me how anyone , especially residents of other states , can criticize the WIDNR for their actions in trying to eradicate a desease that could have a huge financial impact on the state of Wisconsin if it' s not taken care of now. [:' (]

Very true,
I don' t live in WI but I' m supporting you guys and what your DNR is doing. Anything that might proove helpful in ridding the deer and us of this disease I' m all for. Wether people feel that it is right or wrong at least you guys are trying to do something to slow it down. There is just too much concuring evidence from too many different scientists and agencies to not take this action.

I say good on your DNR!

Specific enough? Come on OV, whats the infection rate for the hunter above? That is a real hunter and his acuall kills for the season.

the infection rate in your " limited study" of 4 animals is 50%. limit your samples more and you could have 100%. Way to use statistical BS. What was in common is just as I said before, the old animals have it, and the young ones don' t.

Reduce the herd size (some) and reduce the age, reduce the positive " tests" for CWD. Kill all the old people, and we can rid the world of alzheimers.

Buckmine
Yes the world is overpopulated with people, and that does cause problems. but the powers that be don' t allow people to remedy these problems. We have disease outbreaks like SARS and AIDS which aren' t so bad (compared to the plague, yellow fever...) , and then we move on, but one day we may well end up with one that is much worse.

That 100? bushel bait pile is just crazy, but what about that farmer that has haystacks out in his field all winter, or that little watering hole out in the middle of the woods, or that wild apple tree I hunted under last fall, or, or? Should we stop all farming, and drain all of the watering holes so the deer can' t congregate? We can' t keep the deer apart, and we can' t rid the world (or wisconsin) of infected animals.

I' m not worried about CWD coming to my state, because I' m sure it is already here, and it is there, and everywhere. So is SARS. Everyone is just buying into all this hype, just like the dreaded West Nile Virus. It' s not that bad.

BOWFANATIC,

AMEN!

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I still haven' t seen any one come up with anything that supports these claims that baiting and feeding deer and elk has no effect what so ever in the spread of CWD!

The only people here that have provided anything other than personal feelings are Nub and myself. If you are going to argue a point, at least get some facts of some kind to support your argument.

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That' s exactly the response I would have expecteed from someone just running off at the mouth with absolutly nothing to back it up.

Have you ever seen a deer with CWD? It isn' t a pretty sight. Is this something you want running around in your woods

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