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Is this for real? TWRA vs CWD
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<blockquote data-quote="Boll Weevil" data-source="post: 5212066" data-attributes="member: 10006"><p>The more I think about it maybe the incentives are focused more on encouraging testing than simply killing. Read the language:</p><p>- "Hunters who harvest a positive deer..."</p><p>- "Residents who kill 2 or more CWD-positive deer..."</p><p>The only way to know with certainty if a deer is positive or not is to have it tested...a hunter didn't know they were killing a positive deer when they pulled the trigger.</p><p></p><p>Now I could be 100% wrong and the goal really is to simply kill more deer becuase I believe we're headed for a population explosion because the number of deer killed is decreasing. This is a graph of total harvest (blue line) and % antlerless (red line) for Hardeman county from 2005 to 2020. As you can see harvest has tanked, partly because there are fewer deer to kill, hunters are more selective than in years past, and perhaps the emergence of CWD.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]116870[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Boll Weevil, post: 5212066, member: 10006"] The more I think about it maybe the incentives are focused more on encouraging testing than simply killing. Read the language: - "Hunters who harvest a positive deer..." - "Residents who kill 2 or more CWD-positive deer..." The only way to know with certainty if a deer is positive or not is to have it tested...a hunter didn't know they were killing a positive deer when they pulled the trigger. Now I could be 100% wrong and the goal really is to simply kill more deer becuase I believe we're headed for a population explosion because the number of deer killed is decreasing. This is a graph of total harvest (blue line) and % antlerless (red line) for Hardeman county from 2005 to 2020. As you can see harvest has tanked, partly because there are fewer deer to kill, hunters are more selective than in years past, and perhaps the emergence of CWD. [ATTACH type="full" alt="7.jpg"]116870[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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