Idaho CWD Control Plans

[idcwby]

F&G will reduce deer herds in Slate Creek to slow the spread of chronic wasting disease

Fish and Game will reduce deer density in the Slate Creek area in a portion of Unit 14 north of Riggins and east of U.S. 95 in an effort to minimize the spread of chronic wasting disease into adjacent areas. Fish and Game will provide special permits to landowners to kill deer on their property...

idfg.idaho.gov

 

[mallardsx2]

So sad.

I wish we were able to provide some kind of antibody in a winder feed ground that would beat this disease. Anything but killing them off to prevent the spread. Pains me to see animals come down with a fatal disease after every aspect of their life is a dead-end road.

In my next life I hope I don't come back as a deer. Every turn in the road seems like death...Cars, Humans, Animals, Weather, Disease....

 

[ScottR]

The most frustrating thing with all this CWD management is that it feels like a giant case of sledge hammer for a fly!

 

[idcwby]

The frustrating part with the kill everything mentality, that there is no scientific proof it works.

 

[Muley bound]

The frustrating part with the kill everything mentality, that there is no scientific proof it works.

You’re exactly right. There is no proof it works….cause it does not!!! They tried all that nonsense here in Wisconsin. All they accomplished was a deer slaughter in certain areas. And guess what….CWD is still around. Takes years for the herd to recover numbers.

 

[idcwby]

You’re exactly right. There is no proof it works….cause it does not!!! They tried all that nonsense here in Wisconsin. All they accomplished was a deer slaughter in certain areas. And guess what….CWD is still around. Takes years for the herd to recover numbers.

That’s what I keep reading and hearing. For this my biggest question is how did it jump all the way across the state?

 

[kidoggy]

china.

 

[RICMIC]

So sad.

I wish we were able to provide some kind of antibody in a winder feed ground that would beat this disease. Anything but killing them off to prevent the spread. Pains me to see animals come down with a fatal disease after every aspect of their life is a dead-end road.

In my next life I hope I don't come back as a deer. Every turn in the road seems like death...Cars, Humans, Animals, Weather, Disease....

It's no different for us humans. In the US, roughly 38K from cars, 20K from murders, animals - not many, weather - 1K+, disease - all the rest of us......there's no getting out alive.

 

[Muley bound]

That’s what I keep reading and hearing. For this my biggest question is how did it jump all the way across the state?

Just like any virus, Covid, it just spreads. At some of the deer farms, they tried burning everything and it still showed back up. It can stay in the soil. So even after eliminating the deer and burning it….CWD still showed back up.

 

[idcwby]

Just like any virus, Covid, it just spreads. At some of the deer farms, they tried burning everything and it still showed back up. It can stay in the soil. So even after eliminating the deer and burning it….CWD still showed back up.

I understand it spreads, but it’s strange it didn’t get detect closer to Wyoming or Montana before it made it almost to Oregon.

 

[Muley bound]

I understand it spreads, but it’s strange it didn’t get detect closer to Wyoming or Montana before it made it almost to Oregon.

That I don’t have an answer for!?!?

 

[idcwby]

That I don’t have an answer for!?!?

That’s been my biggest question when this all started here and no one seems to have an idea how it happened. That’s why I keep asking it. Is it staying in certain spots on Wisconsin or is it all over?

 

[Muley bound]

For the most part, it’s generally been in the same areas. Yet, from time to time, it’ll pop up in other areas. Honestly, I don’t pay too much attention to it anymore. I feel like it’s a an old news event. Not that it’s not around, but it’s something that Is around…but it’s not the doomsday event that the media and some DNR make it out to be. It’s been almost 30 years, since I recall. We still have great hunting, good genetics, and so forth.
Im not saying it’s not an issue or concern, but I feel it’s just another “thing” that we have to deal with. From what I’ve seen, EHD is more detrimental to the heard, but doesn’t get as much media as the CWD does. I’m by no means an expert on the subject, but it’s my experience.
I also feel, that when CWD is spoken, everybody freaks out and jumps to the conclusion that all the deer need to be shot. Money and resources are wasted for no reason. Again, it’s my opinion, but I do know a lot of people feel that way as well.

 

[idcwby]

I’ll agree with a 100% on EHD. Two years before this started, we had a run of blue tongue and EHD go through the area, I think it almost wiped out the whitetail population and the EHD did a number on the mule deer. Then we get CWD the following year. If it hadn’t been for the EHD, I doubt the two bucks that started all this would’ve even been tested and we would still be oblivious to the fact CWD was around.

 

[CrimsonArrow]

More animals will die from this culling than from cwd. At least in quantifiable terms

 

[kidoggy]

It's no different for us humans. In the US, roughly 38K from cars, 20K from murders, animals - not many, weather - 1K+, disease - all the rest of us......there's no getting out alive.

and who would want to?

 

[kidoggy]

That’s been my biggest question when this all started here and no one seems to have an idea how it happened. That’s why I keep asking it. Is it staying in certain spots on Wisconsin or is it all over?

wuhan??

 

[idcwby]

wuhan??

Spy Balloon??

 

[kidoggy]

Spy Balloon??

actually that was my science project. just gathering climate change data. lol.

seems a missile leaves a heat signature.

 

[jimss]

Coming from someone that has lived in the hotbed area where CWD first started in the US way back in 1980, I can pretty much guarantee that culling projects and increasing tag quotas is not the answer! Right now there is nothing available to prevent the spread of CWD...especially when it is in low prevalence level. Believe me, predators are pretty much the only thing around that target the truly sick and weak. There is also getting more evidence that culling and increasing tag options may actually do more harm than good. Healthy mature bucks and does that survive CWD may actually carry resistant CWD alleles that are passed along to their progeny.

I certainly hope that Idaho actually learns from Colorado's CWD mistakes! I have been excited to see that Wyo hunters have stood up to some of the false statements made about CWD and have so far prevented the culling and late season additional deer quota harvests that likely do more harm than good!