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CWD is Not The End of Hunting
Much ink has been spilled about chronic wasting disease (CWD), which affects deer. CWD has slowly spread over the last few decades, and some hunters are worried it will decimate deer populations and a favorite outdoor pastime. Some have even questioned whether it is the end of hunting. Yet there’s Read more…
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CWD RESEARCHER MAY HAVE DISCOVERED MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH
From Hunting News CWD has turned into a very controversial topic in the US. With confirmed cases in 24 states and spreading, it has many hunters worried. Many people believe CWD is the biggest problem to face hunting in 100 years, others think its a hoax. Everyone thinks they are Read more…
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CWD Researcher: Deer Urine Bans are Illogical
From DeerAndDeerHunting.com In this Deer & Deer Hunting exclusive video, Colorado State University Research Dr. Davin Henderson examines the myths and mysteries behind white-tailed deer urine and what he calls “illogical” regulations by state game departments when it comes to urine-based hunting lures. Ironically, Henderson’s own research is what many states have been citing when Read more…
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CWD – Liberalism Hits the Deer Woods
By Don Higgins Last September I wrote a blog regarding CWD in which I encouraged hunters in my home state of Illinois to think long and hard before reporting a deer they suspect may have CWD. The reason for this is not that I don’t care about CWD but my Read more…
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Is CWD a Hazard or a Hoax?
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 Read more…
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Deer Urine Bans Do Nothing to Slow CWD: Prion Researcher
Dr. Davin M. Henderson from the Prion Research Center, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology at Colorado State University said today that banning urine-based scents is “simply not going to do anything to prevent the slow down, or stop chronic wasting disease” in elk, moose, whitetails, mule deer and other Read more…
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Current Scientific Knowledge About CWD
Here is a quote from “Current Scientific Knowledge About CWD, Davis, et al. April 2018: “Let’s examine some examples in detail. First is in regard to “spread between animals by body fluids like feces, saliva, blood, or urine”. Blood – A single white-tailed fawn experimentally injected intravenously (IV) with 250 Read more…
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Don’t Blame Chronic Wasting Disease On Deer Farms
Written by Greg Flees, Exotic Wildlife Association Deer farmers are unfairly targeted in a recent article the Cap Times ran by Wisconsin Public Radio about chronic wasting disease. The piece attempts to blame deer farms for the spread of CWD, but it fails to mention important information. Much of the Read more…
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Organic Soils Can Degrade Prions
Study reports the effect of humic acid in humus on prion concentration. You often hear that CWD prions (infective agents) last in the soil for years! New information shows that organic soils can degrade prions. Read More >>
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An acid found in soil may make a disease killing deer less infectious
An acid found in rich humus soil breaks down the misfolded brain proteins — called prions — that cause chronic wasting disease. When concentrations of humic acid similar to those found in soils were applied to diseased elk brain tissue, chemical signatures of the infectious prions were nearly erased, researchers Read more…
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Bipartisan Bill to Address Growing Chronic Wasting Disease Problem
U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, D-Alabama, joined Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, and Michael Bennet, D-Colorado, in introducing legislation to authorizes a special resource study to determine how chronic wasting disease (CWD) spreads and could be prevented in deer and elk. CWD can affect both wild and domestic herds of deer and Read more…