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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wct12" data-source="post: 366253" data-attributes="member: 8117">Did a little (or lot) of studying on Saskatchewan during this whole thing writing my testimony.. Across the province mule deer pops are steady to increasing, white tail are increasing and they have a total prevalence of 20 something percent.. the south western portion of sask where there is upper 80s% in prevalence (they claim + or -9%) have had a slight decline in population, and there has been an increase in tags there as a management plan to try and reduce the population.  Hunter success from 2020 to 2021 also drastically increased due in large part to Canadas strict covid policy's they are claiming. Then everyone wants to claim Colorado and Wyoming as examples of what they want us to do (baiting restrictions in place). Wyoming still has a prevalence rate in the low 20%s if I remember right as a whole with multiple units pushing 50% prevalence and one bumping 70%. "Slow the spread" and be reactive instead of proactive.. the name of the game for the G&F.. universities are working with the private sector to attempt to be proactive and find something that could help whether it be genetic resistance (Charlie B tip toes around this in his testimony) and things like copper and humic acid to help (whether they work or not is being studied but it's just thrown out the window without data either way by the game and fish).. peer reviewed studies take time with most of these being picked up the last few years so data isn't out, but instead of the game and fish being involved and being proactive with something besides checking another unit off with baiting restrictions, they could use some of that federal money they received (Jeb W skirts his sway around this in his testimony) to put into actually studying this disease and trying to find something that might work instead of doing head counts (has dropped from 15% to 4.2% involvement since 2019), increasing baiting restrictions, and putting decals on their pickups.</blockquote>

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