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Wyoming feed stations are a breeding ground for disease/CWD. Thoughts?

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hoytxl2009:
https://wyofile.com/fewer-elk-sicker-elk-thats-what-the-experts-expect-if-wyoming-keeps-on-feeding/

Thoughts on this article? Makes sense, but I didn't know cwd was a big threat for elk in Wyoming currently. Seemed like those feed stations were crucial in some areas this year that had bad snowfall and late grass. This is first article of this sort that I have read concerning feed stations. Interesting read open for interpretation.

Chesapeake:
Many states have curtailed baiting of deer for the same reason that congregating animals spreads disease.

Pretty well all of Wyoming has shown positive CWD results in deer, and more than half the state for elk.


https://wgfd.wyo.gov/Wildlife-in-Wyoming/More-Wildlife/Wildlife-Disease/Chronic-Wasting-Disease

hunter399:
Kind of dang it if you feed.
Dang it if you don't.

Not sure what is worse,then always the chance you quit feeding.
Bad winter, starvation,and they get CWD anyway.
No right answer really.

Hilltop123:
This will be a ballet measure in less than 10 years. Puget Sounders, will vote to quit the practice out of fear of spreading disease. This will help in driving down the number of ungulates. Hunting will have to be extremely limited, if not outright outlawed. So we have enough ungulates to feed the growing wolf and predator populations. JMTCW :twocents:

bearpaw:
There is a huge push to stop feeding elk and deer and to have more predators, it seems to go hand in hand with these new biologists the liberal colleges are turning out. Here's what I have observed.

In NE WA they used to feed deer when I was young, we had mule deer herds wintering out with hundreds of mule deer that could be counted every winter, they fed whitetails up at higher elevations to keep them off the valley floor where they get hit on the highway. The comment about the whitetail feeding is directly from the mouth of the WDFW employee who ran those whitetail feed stations! Today you will be lucky to see m0re than a couple dozen mule deer in the same areas even if you cover a lot more ground looking. Every time we lose whitetails to hard winter or blue tongue they never recover to their previous high most likely due to the high number of predators, dogs chasing them, and traffic losses.

Last winter where I live in Idaho, IDFG paid the next door farmer to feed elk all winter, to keep them from  raiding farmer haystacks, the elk literally laid in the field all winter in a herd, why would they leave when the snow is three feet deep? I did not see one single elk that died in that field from eating alfalfa. IDFG had 23 deer feeding stations in our area, and this fall when we hunted, the units with the most feeding stations had the best deer hunting. The unit that had the fewest feeding stations last winter had the fewest deer this fall.

At least the deer and elk that got fed survived! I can't say that for a good portion of the herds that weren't fed! We had a lot better fall season than I ever expected and I feel 100% it's because IDFG has a feeding program!

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