Obviously you have a considerable amount of time invested in this. Without reading every link and study you have posted, a quarter of it I am unable to follow anyways. Is there any current studies etc on taxidermists and any illness’ they may acquire. More instances of CJD or Alzheimer’s? Seems to reason that they would be more susceptible to this than the average hunter?
So far I’m still fine after 27 years and still kicking.
Along those same lines, has there been any studies in Colorado with CJD and Alzheimer’s? Are the rates at a higher percentage in Colorado than anywhere else?
We are currently dealing with cwd on our property. We have shot 3 infected and the neighboring farms have also shot some during the past 3 years. After numerous extended hunting seasons the DNR contracted federal sharpshooters for the next 2 months to kill as many as possible. Hunting over corn, at night and out of their trucks. There doesn’t seem to be a long term management plan for this. Will the extended hunting seasons and sharpshooting happen every year until the funding runs out? Or what’s the next plan? That’s the billion dollar question.
If you don’t have cwd detected near you, consider yourself lucky. Do everything in your power to keep it away. Don’t concentrate deer using minerals licks, feeding etc. I didn’t think I’d ever deal with cwd either but it happened. And all the years I spent feeding deer and freshening up mineral licks probably contritubuted to the spread of cwd once it found its way onto our property.
