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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BrockW" data-source="post: 432695" data-attributes="member: 5910">Yea, we’re single digit prevalence in a couple areas. I wouldn’t expect to see bunches of animals. That’s the point of the baiting bans. To not exacerbate spread of the disease, both in prevalence and geographic spread.But look at the research being done in Arkansas and Wyoming right now. Arkansas is showing 34% of their positive animals are reaching end stage CWD. Take 100 positive animals, of those that don’t die from predation, hunter harvest, or other fairly normal causes of death, the rest die from end stage CWD. Thats more than predation can account for in a lot of areas of the country.Wyoming is doing a GPS collar study where all of their collared bucks and half of the collared does were dead at around a year. I believe that article has been shared on this forum before.I’ve talked to folks who live in the south Saskatchewan river valley, and their deer heard is nothing like it once was, both in deer numbers and in deer quality. How anyone can look at these things and think this is “covid” is beyond me.Hell, I talked to a Game warden in Colorado in one of their high prevalence areas, and he gets 6-10 calls a month about a sick CWD deer stumbling around in the ditch or in someone’s yard.The facts are there, whether or not once chooses to see them is another story.</blockquote>