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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 244302" data-attributes="member: 605">I went back and watched the Jay Gregory clip originally posted by 5575. Jay has a lot of the right questions. In Pennsylvania they are asking the same questions. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jay.gregory.5/posts/2117305554999365" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/jay.gregory.5/posts/2117305554999365</a>The answer, CWD has been present for a much longer period of time in South Dakota and they don't have their hair on fire like Minnesota. Wind Cave is a National Park. No guns. CWD is prevalent. They had too many elk on the landscape. Instead of harvesting like we did in Theodore Roosevelt, the National Park Service opened the wire and used helicopters to chase excess elk into Custer State Park. How can there be an excess if they are all supposed to be dying??? Sportsmen were given tags into Custer to shoot them. Think about that. Spooked by helicopters and then shot at.... many survivor's (from a known CWD source herd) ran for their lives in every conceivable direction. South Dakota used to do a lot of antemortem testing of harvested cervids. Over the years they have dropped way down on testing. Here are the numbers.<a href="https://gfp.sd.gov/cwd-testing/" target="_blank">https://gfp.sd.gov/cwd-testing/</a>[h=2]Latest CWD testing results[/h]In the South Dakota CWD Surveillance period of July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018, a total of 746 samples have been collected for CWD surveillance.Breakdown of the sampling is as follows: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">459 elk sampled-- 434 results returned as Not Positive--(25 POSITIVE ELK FOUND)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">15 mule deer sampled-- 15 results returned as Not Positive--(0 POSITIVE MD FOUND)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">272 white-tailed deer-- 260 results returned as Not Positive--(12 POSITIVE WT FOUND)</li> </ul>They tested a grand total of 15 mule deer in all of South Dakota. Glen Sargent from our own Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center in Jamestown worked with those elk in South Dakota. They captured some and put tracking collars on them. So how many died from CWD? How many were chased out of Wind Cave? How many were shot by hunters? How many outside of Wind Cave survived the shoot? Glen Sargent works with Dave Brandt at USGS in Jamestown. Dave is now on the board of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers who are prompting Rep. Jamie Becker-Finn to push the 5 Bills in the Minnesota Legislature. In the original clip starting this thread, Jay Gregory keeps asking, How many dead ones have they found from CWD? So what happened at Wind Cave? Where are the numbers? Crickets...……..</blockquote>

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