RobertR
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Do you think hunting groups are passive about CWD and do you think James Kroll doesn't care?
I don't know about you guys but I'm getting tired of these left wing nuts.
Gov Walker, deer czar Kroll, some hunting groups become passive over brain rotting disease-
It’s aim for the lowest common denominator in management of Wisconsin’s huge whitetail population. The incidence of chronic wasting disease, the prion-based malady that turns deer (and elk and moose) brains into sponges has gone from a half per cent in 2002 to 5 per cent (10x increase) today.
The spread of infectious diseases requires a public strategy, but public is an idea foreign to right wing governor Scott Walker and his “deer czar” James (public deer management is Communism) Kroll.
We have written many stories on this close relative to mad-cow disease, which so-far cannot be transmitted to humans. While eaters of venison seem safe for now, the causal agent, a misfolded protein that corrupts healthy neural proteins, creates disgustingly sick, terminal deer. The prion is a kind of ultimate pollution as well, lying in the soil for an indefinite (permanent?) time waiting for a deer or other cervid to come along.
Wisconsin outdoor writer Patrick Durkin has been sounding the alarm at Walker’s ending of the state’s CWD-eradication program. Ironically, this change leaves the state’s wolf population as the only thing in the outdoors serving to control the spread of the disease. Wolves tend to kill the weaker animals in a herd, thus culling to a greater or lesser degree CWD-addled deer.
In present day Wisconsin, like a number of other states (mostly “red” ones), it seems the number of deer, regardless of their health, is the only thing that matters politically.
The dire effects of this indifferent approach to a horrible wildlife disease will never be fully reversed. While it must be stressed there is no evidence that human’s have ever gotten this disease, non-living prions do change over time and can suddenly cross species barriers. That is what seemed to have happened with mad-cow disease. A spark of hope is that newspapers in the Dairy State are covering and so magnifying Durkin’s alarm.
The ideological approach to wildlife management always results in death and decay.
I don't know about you guys but I'm getting tired of these left wing nuts.
Gov Walker, deer czar Kroll, some hunting groups become passive over brain rotting disease-
It’s aim for the lowest common denominator in management of Wisconsin’s huge whitetail population. The incidence of chronic wasting disease, the prion-based malady that turns deer (and elk and moose) brains into sponges has gone from a half per cent in 2002 to 5 per cent (10x increase) today.
The spread of infectious diseases requires a public strategy, but public is an idea foreign to right wing governor Scott Walker and his “deer czar” James (public deer management is Communism) Kroll.
We have written many stories on this close relative to mad-cow disease, which so-far cannot be transmitted to humans. While eaters of venison seem safe for now, the causal agent, a misfolded protein that corrupts healthy neural proteins, creates disgustingly sick, terminal deer. The prion is a kind of ultimate pollution as well, lying in the soil for an indefinite (permanent?) time waiting for a deer or other cervid to come along.
Wisconsin outdoor writer Patrick Durkin has been sounding the alarm at Walker’s ending of the state’s CWD-eradication program. Ironically, this change leaves the state’s wolf population as the only thing in the outdoors serving to control the spread of the disease. Wolves tend to kill the weaker animals in a herd, thus culling to a greater or lesser degree CWD-addled deer.
In present day Wisconsin, like a number of other states (mostly “red” ones), it seems the number of deer, regardless of their health, is the only thing that matters politically.
The dire effects of this indifferent approach to a horrible wildlife disease will never be fully reversed. While it must be stressed there is no evidence that human’s have ever gotten this disease, non-living prions do change over time and can suddenly cross species barriers. That is what seemed to have happened with mad-cow disease. A spark of hope is that newspapers in the Dairy State are covering and so magnifying Durkin’s alarm.
The ideological approach to wildlife management always results in death and decay.