EHD is back..AGAIN!



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A soaking rain or heavy precipitation can temporarily slow down or interrupt an Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) outbreak, but rain itself is a double-edged sword that can also create the exact conditions needed for the disease to spread.
 

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A soaking rain or heavy precipitation can temporarily slow down or interrupt an Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) outbreak, but rain itself is a double-edged sword that can also create the exact conditions needed for the disease to spread.
You are correct if the rain event happens when the temps are high enough for long enough for a generation of midges to occur. If we stay in the 60's I suspect that those temps will not assist in the midges going from egg to adult in a timely manner before the first frost ends this entire EHD event.
 


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EHD seems so foreign to me, our climate up here must be cooler enough to keep it at bay. I've never heard of a case in the turtle mountains. The deer herd seems healthy and
herd seems healthy and thriving up here.
Yea you guys are extremely fortunate! I'm just glad I get to hunt Manitoba every year because these die offs are getting sickening down here!

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Be careful what you wish for, if times get tough you might want a little venison to go along with all those berries 🍒 😄.
True, after I get a fence up, then Ill be wishing there were more deer around probably. I need to get back into bow hunting, its been a few years since I poked a deer with a stick. Im planting plenty of habitat, so they will likely show up again.
 

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Saw a dead whitetail in the Cannonball River 5 miles S of Elgin youth hunting tonight. Did see a dozen other deer that looked healthy, was raining when I left.
 


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Yesterday I saw one at the low water ramp at Ft Rice
 

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