Mike,
But there's a catch. Those were not random tests. They were tests on elk that were either dead or sick, unlike the more random testing done elsewhere in the Black Hills by GF&P, primarily from elk shot by hunters.
Those test results, based on 15 years of sampling, indicate a CWD infection rate throughout the Hills in deer and elk of slightly less than 1 percent. But comparing the two types of tests isn't fair, Weber said.
"The animals we test are either sick and we suspect chronic wasting and we shoot them, or they've already died and we test them," Weber said. "So it's way higher. Comparing our tests to the state's results is apples and elephants."
Isn't that the same thing we do? We test our sick or dead in the pen. The DNR only tests healthy hunter harvested deer.
Also they talk of their animals testing negative, they use the same tests we do, which reads " not detected". This is mentioned in the Federal Rule, do not let them get away with this one. There is no negative test.
Gary