I wish it all was only a bad dream.
My concern remains more about how CWD is reponded to (i.e. regs)
than the CWD itself.
Areas where CWD presented decades ago continue to have good deer hunting today,
WITHOUT state game agencies decimating the deer populations in those areas?
Then there are areas where state game agencies
DID DESTROY the deer populations in CWD areas, yet to what extent did those areas fare much differently?
Do we somewhat destroy the heritage of deer hunting with fear-mongering of CWD?
Yes, CWD is bad news.
Just hoping TWRA's "treatment" doesn't end up being worse than the disease.
I know several hunters who just cancelled their deer hunting plans on some October quota hunts (in Henry County) because they're afraid of CWD, along with the edicts of transporting the deer.
One quota hunt in particular presents a unqiue issue, in that currently all options for dealing with a hunter-killed deer would now be illegal. It is for the Big Sandy Unit of the TN National Wildllife Refuge. This unit is in Henry County, but one cannot drive to it without driving thru Benton County. There are no deer processors on the refuge, and as soon as one drives off it, he is in Benton County.