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just wondering if anybodys going out tonight from my area ,im in spring glen area,northern dauphin county
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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
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
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Wind Cave's Elk Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement, completed in 2009, calls for an elk population of 232 to 475. There was an estimated 950 elk in Wind Cave National Park this winter.
Wow, It looks like CWD really wiped out this herd.
Gary
Wow, It looks like CWD really wiped out this herd.
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Ohio 2011
The fall herd is estimated at 725,000 deer. This year's harvest should be up slightly from last year's harvest of 239,475 but most likely below the record harvest of 261,260 in 2009-10. Ohio’s deer herd remains healthy and disease-free. In 2010, 471 road-killed and 588 hunter-harvested deer from 44 counties were tested for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD).
Wow Ohio tests .14% of it's state deer herd !!!! And they claim to be disease free. That's an easy claim to make when you aren't testing for it.
Gary
The fall herd is estimated at 725,000 deer. This year's harvest should be up slightly from last year's harvest of 239,475 but most likely below the record harvest of 261,260 in 2009-10. Ohio’s deer herd remains healthy and disease-free. In 2010, 471 road-killed and 588 hunter-harvested deer from 44 counties were tested for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD).
Wow Ohio tests .14% of it's state deer herd !!!! And they claim to be disease free. That's an easy claim to make when you aren't testing for it.
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kings whitetails said:
I hope a pile of you guys are heading there. With loaded guns! Video the meeting and have all kinds of info to dispute whatever they say that is untrue.
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