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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BrockW" data-source="post: 439075" data-attributes="member: 5910">You know deer aren’t livestock right? Completely different ruminant (completely different stomach). Not only that, it’s already known that supplemental/emergency winter feeding, while it can have some benefits to an individual deers chances of survival, it creates problems with surrounding natural forage, predation, deer behavior and land utilization, as well interrupting migrations in both mule deer and whitetail. It is not a natural thing to have that many deer continually using a small chunk of ground like that.The game and fish sees high levels of rumen acidosis in tough winters from supplemental feeding. A sportsman’s club in eastern ND tried supplemental feeding in the winter of 23 and still lost a ton of deer. Did they fair marginally better than if they didnt feed? Perhaps. But if a fatal and contagious disease that can stay in the environment for 10-15 years is present, I think the wise thing to do in the long term is to try and prevent huge gathering of deer not encourage them. Certainly can’t stop them all, and some natural spread will occur, absolutely. But just because natural spread occurs doesn’t mean we should encourage it and promote it just so one user group can hunt over bait.If landowners care about deer herds. They should be working with the GF to get hay yards around silage piles and haystacks the best they can. The department has already spent 6 million dollars of hunter license dollars on 500 hay yard projects, since CWD was found in ND.</blockquote>

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