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<blockquote data-quote="CBU93" data-source="post: 5731410" data-attributes="member: 599"><p>iIRC first year following CWD going "public", 20 deer 100% positive.</p><p></p><p>Second year, 12 harvests, 100% positive.</p><p></p><p>Third year, 6 deer total (hunter participation dwindled as this was not a club but privately held ground hunted by permission). Of the six two yearlings killed on a youth hunt tested negative, the other 4 were positive.</p><p></p><p>Following the two negatives, there was some hope from the landowner so the management went to archery only…hoping to rebuild the herd <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😳" title="Flushed face :flushed:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f633.png" data-shortname=":flushed:" /></p><p></p><p>This is my experience and I don't thin CWD will eradicate the deer herd into extinction in our lifetime…but it definitely can have an absolutely disastrous impact on localized, self sustaining herds on given properties.</p><p></p><p>Everyone compares West TN to other areas in f the country and says it didn't wipe out deer out there….true, but the ecological variables in a Southern deee herd is vastly different from mid western, western, or even northern herds. Different habitats, different subspecies.</p><p></p><p>Closest I would compare is AR. They have had CWD for several more years than TN, and it seems somewhat contained in just a few counties last I checked.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CBU93, post: 5731410, member: 599"] iIRC first year following CWD going “public”, 20 deer 100% positive. Second year, 12 harvests, 100% positive. Third year, 6 deer total (hunter participation dwindled as this was not a club but privately held ground hunted by permission). Of the six two yearlings killed on a youth hunt tested negative, the other 4 were positive. Following the two negatives, there was some hope from the landowner so the management went to archery only…hoping to rebuild the herd 😳 This is my experience and I don’t thin CWD will eradicate the deer herd into extinction in our lifetime…but it definitely can have an absolutely disastrous impact on localized, self sustaining herds on given properties. Everyone compares West TN to other areas in f the country and says it didn’t wipe out deer out there….true, but the ecological variables in a Southern deee herd is vastly different from mid western, western, or even northern herds. Different habitats, different subspecies. Closest I would compare is AR. They have had CWD for several more years than TN, and it seems somewhat contained in just a few counties last I checked. [/QUOTE]
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