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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 366569" data-attributes="member: 605">Ok, they wrote the AFWA document with no intention of implementing it. <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 33:7 - Preventing Unnatural Concentrations of Cervids – Baiting and Feeding Best Management Practice: • To reduce the risk of CWD transmission and establishment of CWD through unnatural concentrations of cervids, states and provinces should eliminate the baiting and feeding of all wild cervids using regulatory mechanisms such as jurisdictional bans. Alternative Management practices include: • Where a jurisdictional ban is not possible, an alternative utilized by some agencies is to allow baiting and/or feeding of cervids in portions of CWD-positive states where the disease has not yet been detected. However, this practice may facilitate increasing the prevalence and distribution of CWD within the state due to the epidemiology of the disease, natural movements of cervids, and limitations associated with surveillance of free-ranging animals. • In jurisdictions with no evidence of CWD, proactive strategies to decrease baiting and feeding will minimize future disease control challenges. These strategies may include outright bans as stated above, or aggressive education and outreach campaigns. Once baiting and feeding have been established and hunter attitudes are accepting of the practice, it may be difficult to reverse hunter attitudes even with increasing disease threat. • States should provide protocols for alternative methodologies to traditional baited camera surveys for hunters and landowners who wish to survey deer populations on their properties.</blockquote>

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