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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5726037" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>Pretty darn good considering CWD has been detected in wild herds for more than 40yrs, is present in 30 states & 6 countries, and has yet to kill a herd off. I've never once saw, read, or heard of a publishing that details with factual statistics how CWD has destroyed a wild herd of cervids. It's always been the fear since day 1 but has yet to become reality and most likely never will. </p><p></p><p>I was living in NM around the time it was discovered there and we all freaked out because everybody just knew it was the end of hunting. It was an incurable, unkillable, infectious, contagious, 100% fatal disease and it was sweeping through the herds going state to state. Nothing could be done about it. But then nothing happened. And nothing kept happening. Hunting continued as usual and more than 20yrs after the fact people are still killing world class elk & mule deer at normal rate. The herds out there are just fine. The herds everywhere are just fine. My buddy recently sent me a pic of a 12yr old bull he just killed in Utah, who discovered CWD same time as NM. Imagine a bull elk roaming the mountains and seasonal region shifts for 12 years. How many CWD positive elk did he encounter? How many CWD infected water holes or wallows or grazing pastures did he use? CWD had been around more than a decade before he was even born yet he survived 12yrs to be killed by a hunter. </p><p></p><p>TN by contrast only discovered CWD in 2018 and look at how TWRA is handling it. Baffles me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5726037, member: 20583"] Pretty darn good considering CWD has been detected in wild herds for more than 40yrs, is present in 30 states & 6 countries, and has yet to kill a herd off. I've never once saw, read, or heard of a publishing that details with factual statistics how CWD has destroyed a wild herd of cervids. It's always been the fear since day 1 but has yet to become reality and most likely never will. I was living in NM around the time it was discovered there and we all freaked out because everybody just knew it was the end of hunting. It was an incurable, unkillable, infectious, contagious, 100% fatal disease and it was sweeping through the herds going state to state. Nothing could be done about it. But then nothing happened. And nothing kept happening. Hunting continued as usual and more than 20yrs after the fact people are still killing world class elk & mule deer at normal rate. The herds out there are just fine. The herds everywhere are just fine. My buddy recently sent me a pic of a 12yr old bull he just killed in Utah, who discovered CWD same time as NM. Imagine a bull elk roaming the mountains and seasonal region shifts for 12 years. How many CWD positive elk did he encounter? How many CWD infected water holes or wallows or grazing pastures did he use? CWD had been around more than a decade before he was even born yet he survived 12yrs to be killed by a hunter. TN by contrast only discovered CWD in 2018 and look at how TWRA is handling it. Baffles me. [/QUOTE]
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