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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 366375" data-attributes="member: 605"><a href="https://video.ndlegis.gov/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20230316/-1/29436?fbclid=IwAR2_BfgXtc7IHbvqEV8opt6CJTPGsytJYhYc4_fueHVXCsIRj_hPRCA1SE0" target="_blank">https://video.ndlegis.gov/en/PowerB...vqEV8opt6CJTPGsytJYhYc4_fueHVXCsIRj_hPRCA1SE0</a>At 10:36:20 Senator Boehm asks G&F DVM Charlie Bahnson, "Can prions stay in the soil forever?"Dr. Bahnson responds, "The reality is we don't know the end. There is a study in sheep in Iceland demonstrating it can remain infectious for 16 years. We don't know the end result in all pracitcality it is very very long. It might even be a matter of when prions percolate down into the soil where they are not available on the surface." ........Speculation or science? No matter, Dr. Bahnson's whole answer is wrong. The playbook our NDGF is using has been adopted from the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. It says here below, plants can uptake prions from contaminated soil. Plants have roots.  <a href="https://www.fishwildlife.org/application/files/9615/3729/1513/AFWA_Technical_Report_on_CWD_BMPs_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.fishwildlife.org/application/files/9615/3729/1513/AFWA_Technical_Report_on_CWD_BMPs_FINAL.pdf</a>Page 80 and 81 say:Prion Resistance The ability of the CWD prion to be transmitted horizontally and the length of time prions remain infectious in the environment may perpetuate epizootics (Johnson et al. 2006). Experimental 81 research has found that prions can bind to soil, remain infectious, and upon exposure to certain soil types (e.g., high percentage clay and pH >6.6) may even have enhanced persistence and infectivity (Johnson et al. 2007). While prions in live cervids and their excretions, carcasses, and contaminated environments pose the greatest concentration of prions, lab-based research has demonstrated that grass and plants can bind prions from exposure on the surface and uptake prion from contaminated soil.Not too many people are willing to read the whole 111 page AFWA document written in gubment speak. One guy did and submitted testimony:<a href="https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/68-2023/testimony/SNATRES-1151-20230316-25121-F-WILLIAMSON_MATTHEW_W.pdf" target="_blank">https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/68-2023/testimony/SNATRES-1151-20230316-25121-F-WILLIAMSON_MATTHEW_W.pdf</a></blockquote>

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