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Wyoming feed stations are a breeding ground for disease/CWD. Thoughts?
baldopepper:
--- Quote from: hoytxl2009 on December 22, 2023, 02:15:53 PM ---I definitely favor the side of the feed station. I'm yet to read a article where elk die in masses due to disease at one of these loactions. The Jackson refuge was established in 1912 and I'm yet to read a single bad thing about it as well.
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Not necessarily disputing the need for feeding, but with cwd animals don't disappear in masses like you'll see in a winter kill.area. it's very insidious, you just start seeing a sick one here and there, often with others that look healthy, and then after a a couple years you just don't see any in that area. As I've stated in other posts, it pretty much wiped out the area we hunted for years in Utah. It's kind of a silent killer and would be devastating if it broke out in our already stressed herds.
hoytxl2009:
--- Quote from: baldopepper on December 22, 2023, 02:34:53 PM ---
--- Quote from: hoytxl2009 on December 22, 2023, 02:15:53 PM ---I definitely favor the side of the feed station. I'm yet to read a article where elk die in masses due to disease at one of these loactions. The Jackson refuge was established in 1912 and I'm yet to read a single bad thing about it as well.
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Not necessarily disputing the need for feeding, but with cwd animals don't disappear in masses like you'll see in a winter kill.area. it's very insidious, you just start seeing a sick one here and there, often with others that look healthy, and then after a a couple years you just don't see any in that area. As I've stated in other posts, it pretty much wiped out the area we hunted for years in Utah. It's kind of a silent killer and would be devastating if it broke out in our already stressed herds.
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What area of Utah did that happen? I happened to draw the Manti tag this last September and had a blast down there.
baldopepper:
--- Quote from: hoytxl2009 on December 22, 2023, 02:56:39 PM ---
--- Quote from: baldopepper on December 22, 2023, 02:34:53 PM ---
--- Quote from: hoytxl2009 on December 22, 2023, 02:15:53 PM ---I definitely favor the side of the feed station. I'm yet to read a article where elk die in masses due to disease at one of these loactions. The Jackson refuge was established in 1912 and I'm yet to read a single bad thing about it as well.
--- End quote ---
Not necessarily disputing the need for feeding, but with cwd animals don't disappear in masses like you'll see in a winter kill.area. it's very insidious, you just start seeing a sick one here and there, often with others that look healthy, and then after a a couple years you just don't see any in that area. As I've stated in other posts, it pretty much wiped out the area we hunted for years in Utah. It's kind of a silent killer and would be devastating if it broke out in our already stressed herds.
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What area of Utah did that happen? I happened to draw the Manti tag this last September and had a blast down there.
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We were further.south in the LaSalles. Was a big checking.station just south of price, they didn't really make a huge deal of it but last time we went thru the bio there said the had a very high percentage of positives the previous year and very much lower hunter success rate for this year..We literally saw no.deer in the area where we used to see100+ a day.
bearpaw:
--- Quote from: baldopepper on December 22, 2023, 03:14:43 PM ---
--- Quote from: hoytxl2009 on December 22, 2023, 02:56:39 PM ---
--- Quote from: baldopepper on December 22, 2023, 02:34:53 PM ---
--- Quote from: hoytxl2009 on December 22, 2023, 02:15:53 PM ---I definitely favor the side of the feed station. I'm yet to read a article where elk die in masses due to disease at one of these loactions. The Jackson refuge was established in 1912 and I'm yet to read a single bad thing about it as well.
--- End quote ---
Not necessarily disputing the need for feeding, but with cwd animals don't disappear in masses like you'll see in a winter kill.area. it's very insidious, you just start seeing a sick one here and there, often with others that look healthy, and then after a a couple years you just don't see any in that area. As I've stated in other posts, it pretty much wiped out the area we hunted for years in Utah. It's kind of a silent killer and would be devastating if it broke out in our already stressed herds.
--- End quote ---
What area of Utah did that happen? I happened to draw the Manti tag this last September and had a blast down there.
--- End quote ---
We were further.south in the LaSalles. Was a big checking.station just south of price, they didn't really make a huge deal of it but last time we went thru the bio there said the had a very high percentage of positives the previous year and very much lower hunter success rate for this year..We literally saw no.deer in the area where we used to see100+ a day.
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Did this occur due to winter feeding? Do they do any winter feeding in that area? I'm asking because I've never heard of winter feeding in that area and suspect the disease spread by other means?
Wisconsin had a lot of CWD but they still have lots of deer as compared to most states. I can't say if they do winter feeding or if the disease spread by other means. I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't think there is an conclusive data linking winter feeding to big cwd infections? I think some biologists are using the cwd argument to stop winter feeding because they don't agree with winter feeding.
baldopepper:
No. There is no winter feeding in that area. I'm not aware of any winter feeding.in the state specifically aimed at deer. Nothing like the Hardware Ranch in the area I'm aware of.Dont get me wrong, I'm not against winter feeding, but would like further research to see if their is a correlation to higher incidences of cwd. Not sure many really realize how nasty that stuff is. We didn't until we saw the effect.
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