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New Article on CWD by Dr. Alan Houston, Ames Plantation
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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5383681" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>DoubleRidge, the current TWRA CWD regs are not about killing all the <u>deer</u> possible,</p><p>so much as they are about killing all the <u><strong>bucks</strong></u> possible.</p><p></p><p>Although female deer remain legal, fewer than ever are going to be killed with these regs, which then contribute to a very unbalanced buck:doe ratio, and a very young buck age structure.</p><p></p><p>And just to be clear, I'm not saying everything about changing the regs is "bad", but most the resulting implications certainly aren't "good". For example, not being able to cross county lines with a deer (from a CWD county) not only causes many hunters to not go hunt those counties, but it's also putting many deer processors out of business, further contributing to the reasons the hunters stop deer hunting there.</p><p></p><p>If a certain threshold in hunters not deer hunting is reached, we will actually see deer populations explode in the CWD counties (at least at some point). But it will be a deer population consisting of mostly female deer and young bucks, something very akin to what was in TN "statewide" in the 1990's.</p><p></p><p>No, not the end of the world, but many of us older deer hunters have better options in other places, including just shifting over to waterfowl hunting, and/or doing our deer hunting in other states. As to what few younger hunters in TN might have been taking our places (as we die out), fewer of those younger people are even going to become hunters period, much less avid deer hunters, at least not in a TN CWD-designated county.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5383681, member: 1409"] DoubleRidge, the current TWRA CWD regs are not about killing all the [U]deer[/U] possible, so much as they are about killing all the [U][B]bucks[/B][/U] possible. Although female deer remain legal, fewer than ever are going to be killed with these regs, which then contribute to a very unbalanced buck:doe ratio, and a very young buck age structure. And just to be clear, I'm not saying everything about changing the regs is "bad", but most the resulting implications certainly aren't "good". For example, not being able to cross county lines with a deer (from a CWD county) not only causes many hunters to not go hunt those counties, but it's also putting many deer processors out of business, further contributing to the reasons the hunters stop deer hunting there. If a certain threshold in hunters not deer hunting is reached, we will actually see deer populations explode in the CWD counties (at least at some point). But it will be a deer population consisting of mostly female deer and young bucks, something very akin to what was in TN "statewide" in the 1990's. No, not the end of the world, but many of us older deer hunters have better options in other places, including just shifting over to waterfowl hunting, and/or doing our deer hunting in other states. As to what few younger hunters in TN might have been taking our places (as we die out), fewer of those younger people are even going to become hunters period, much less avid deer hunters, at least not in a TN CWD-designated county. [/QUOTE]
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