By Rick Story
I don’t know about you, but I’ve stopped losing sleep over the so-called scourge of Chronic Wasting Disease.
In the late ’90s, when the disease turned up in what was believed to be a wild population of whitetailed deer in Colorado (more on that later), the wildlife management community went through the roof, warning of dire consequences to wild herds everywhere and pointing the finger at the operators of high-fence game farms. The hunting preserve operators were supposedly harboring the disease among captive herds, which represented a ticking time bomb sure to lead to the decimation of the wild white-tailed deer population throughout North America.
A decade later, sportsmen are asking, “So what’s the big deal?” Read More >>
