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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pigsticker" data-source="post: 252848" data-attributes="member: 209">Truth is, we know very little about CWD and it's effects or ability to kill. We know very little about it's transmission. We know very little about it's longevity in the environment, we know very little about it's effects on it's hosts, we know very little about it period. What the GnF is using is not science. They are simply banning baiting to appear to be proactive when in fact they know nothing about the disease. Doing something is better than nothing right? That's their take while it cripples a significant amount of hunters in our state. Our GnF puts $0 dollars toward CWD research. Wanna talk about bait banning effectiveness in relation to spread of disease? Look at all the states that have had a baiting ban for the past 10-20 years. It obviously has reduced the spread of the disease...NOT! We have had 15 cases in what...14 years? How about the thousands of deer that die from blue tongue during an outbreak. The biologists response to me was, "well, thats a virus". So what? CWD is a prion... Blue tongue has historically killed way more deer in our state than CWD has ever dreamed about achieving yet that isn't hardly a whisper when it comes to deer management. Our GnF office is weak. It is apparent that they dismiss science or lack of evidence for their own personal opinions/agendas. They mimic other wildlife management offices who have failed miserably at managing their own wildlife within their state. They are so arrogant that they won't even listen to sportsmen/ranchers/farmers when we cry out that our wildlife has been decimated by enviormental factors and continue to issue record numbers of deer tags to help fill their coffers and fund their ridiculous and irresponsible budgets. They turn a blind eye to the irresponsible management of our mule deer herds and the impact that natural predation and bowhunters have on this delicate species. This is government offices operating at their finest. I experienced GnF budget waste. It's all about money to them. The commisioner should be replaced, he clearly has an agenda along with the biologists and cares little for public opinion, betterment of wildlife and sportsman participation. I'm anticipating that the number of available deer tags in the lottery will go up after this winter, wouldn't that be something...- - - Updated - - -"CWD is always fatal"...It sure is, 14 of the 15 positive deer sampled in our state died of lead poisoning. And pretty sure I heard the last deer "found dead that tested positive" was dispatched with a rifle for testing purposes. </blockquote>

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