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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: jackelope on September 27, 2019, 04:38:31 PM

Title: New WSU elk foot rot research facility
Post by: jackelope on September 27, 2019, 04:38:31 PM: WSU breaks ground on new $1.2 million Elk hoof disease research facility on campus.

https://pullmanradio.com/wsu-breaks-ground-on-new-1-2-million-elk-hoof-disease-research-facility-on-campus/
Title: Re: New WSU elk foot rot research facility
Post by: the1rod on September 27, 2019, 04:43:59 PM: Well I always said I wanted to go back and finish! Would love to go work on that program, although I would think it would be more of a wildlife biology program, instead of veterinary medicine.
Title: Re: New WSU elk foot rot research facility
Post by: Stein on September 27, 2019, 07:07:54 PM: Thank goodness for WSU, the elk would go extinct before Olympia or UW got around to caring. For whatever reason, elk are not on the cool animal list.
Title: Re: New WSU elk foot rot research facility
Post by: TheStovePipeKid on September 27, 2019, 08:14:57 PM: Quote from: Stein on September 27, 2019, 07:07:54 PM
Thank goodness for WSU, the elk would go extinct before Olympia or UW got around to caring. For whatever reason, elk are not on the cool animal list.

You can't see your soul in an elk's eyes like you can with wolves. All they have going for them is those pointy horn things on their heads. Not enough to hang with the cool meat eating animals.
Title: Re: New WSU elk foot rot research facility
Post by: wadu1 on September 27, 2019, 08:17:09 PM: That was refreshing news, don't get that out of Olympia. I'm not a MooU fan but ide help with this project, good on WSU. :tup:
Title: Re: New WSU elk foot rot research facility
Post by: Harbor_hunter on September 27, 2019, 08:44:48 PM: Might persuade me to like the Cougs a little more now, lol.
Title: Re: New WSU elk foot rot research facility
Post by: jeffitz on September 27, 2019, 08:52:08 PM: Please Heavens let them figure a cure for this disaster - its so tragic
Title: Re: New WSU elk foot rot research facility
Post by: Lumpy Taters on September 27, 2019, 09:23:35 PM: Hopefully something will finally get done. Been taking way too long.
Title: Re: New WSU elk foot rot research facility
Post by: Mudman on September 27, 2019, 10:01:01 PM: That is great. Sad it takes that much money and time to figure out chemicals are the cause. Spray some more. :bash: