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<blockquote data-quote="DeerCamp" data-source="post: 5850349" data-attributes="member: 21011"><p>Doing nothing isn't an option in the eyes of public (or science). If I were to re-think TWRAs plan, it would go something like this:</p><p></p><p>*** Increase Transparency***</p><p>***Don't Reinvent the Wheel***</p><p></p><p>1. Provide faster screening results to hunters that are within X miles of CWD zone by prioritizing testing from those areas.</p><p></p><p>1A. These tests should always be confirmed if they are from anywhere but an established hot zone.</p><p></p><p>2. Encourage hunters to fill all their tags in those zones</p><p></p><p>3. Tighten the stupid transportation rules that allow you to take deer from a confirmed CWD county into a county with little or no actual CWD.</p><p></p><p>4. draw a distinction between a county that has only 1 or a few cases from a county that has a true hotzone. Lumping them together is silly.</p><p></p><p>I can't emphasize that last point enough.</p><p></p><p>If what we think we know about CWD and Deer Breeding is true, killing deer from an area is not going to have much impact at all. The prions are in the environment, and a reduced deer population will respond by increasing fawn births. You could decimate the deer population, and then people will stop hunting as much, and then the deer will rebound and get CWD from their environment and the process starts all over.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DeerCamp, post: 5850349, member: 21011"] Doing nothing isn't an option in the eyes of public (or science). If I were to re-think TWRAs plan, it would go something like this: *** Increase Transparency*** ***Don't Reinvent the Wheel*** 1. Provide faster screening results to hunters that are within X miles of CWD zone by prioritizing testing from those areas. 1A. These tests should always be confirmed if they are from anywhere but an established hot zone. 2. Encourage hunters to fill all their tags in those zones 3. Tighten the stupid transportation rules that allow you to take deer from a confirmed CWD county into a county with little or no actual CWD. 4. draw a distinction between a county that has only 1 or a few cases from a county that has a true hotzone. Lumping them together is silly. I can't emphasize that last point enough. If what we think we know about CWD and Deer Breeding is true, killing deer from an area is not going to have much impact at all. The prions are in the environment, and a reduced deer population will respond by increasing fawn births. You could decimate the deer population, and then people will stop hunting as much, and then the deer will rebound and get CWD from their environment and the process starts all over. [/QUOTE]
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