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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5212058" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>My thinking is there may be some anti-hunting (as we know it) mixed in with some regulatory edicts which may <em>SOUND</em> somewhat "reasonable" to us, geared towards ending "sport" hunting.</p><p></p><p>I would like to think the TWRA leadership is way above this kind of thinking, but higher up, top-down, more at the federal and general non-hunting political level, the collateral "benefit" empowering them is reducing and/or eliminating "sport" hunting.</p><p></p><p>Their plan includes instead using government employed "sharp-shooters" for deer management, as well as very costly other ideas such as birth control for deer, etc.</p><p></p><p>Just note that where CWD began, and in other places where it's been much longer known than in TN, there are still plenty of deer, whether much anything was done, or if the localized deer herds were mass slaughtered to near extinction. A few years later, similar outcomes regardless.</p><p></p><p>My concern now is that the measures TWRA is taking may slow the spread of CWD only very little, will not change the outcome of CWD, but will cause many current TN deer hunters to hunt a lot less, deer hunting totally, and not pass on the tradition to the next generation.</p><p></p><p><em>THIS</em> is already happening, but the CWD regulatory edicts may be greatly accelerating it, then giving more power to the anti-hunters, who can then more easily convince that 80-plus percent of citizens who do <em>NOT</em> hunt (the non-hunters), that the role of deer management should transition from traditional hunting to a new government policy of sharp-shooting, fencing, trapping, and other measures.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5212058, member: 1409"] My thinking is there may be some anti-hunting (as we know it) mixed in with some regulatory edicts which may [I]SOUND[/I] somewhat "reasonable" to us, geared towards ending "sport" hunting. I would like to think the TWRA leadership is way above this kind of thinking, but higher up, top-down, more at the federal and general non-hunting political level, the collateral "benefit" empowering them is reducing and/or eliminating "sport" hunting. Their plan includes instead using government employed "sharp-shooters" for deer management, as well as very costly other ideas such as birth control for deer, etc. Just note that where CWD began, and in other places where it's been much longer known than in TN, there are still plenty of deer, whether much anything was done, or if the localized deer herds were mass slaughtered to near extinction. A few years later, similar outcomes regardless. My concern now is that the measures TWRA is taking may slow the spread of CWD only very little, will not change the outcome of CWD, but will cause many current TN deer hunters to hunt a lot less, deer hunting totally, and not pass on the tradition to the next generation. [I]THIS[/I] is already happening, but the CWD regulatory edicts may be greatly accelerating it, then giving more power to the anti-hunters, who can then more easily convince that 80-plus percent of citizens who do [I]NOT[/I] hunt (the non-hunters), that the role of deer management should transition from traditional hunting to a new government policy of sharp-shooting, fencing, trapping, and other measures. [/QUOTE]
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