Back in late 2017, I began a conversation with scientists and a few public land managers about what I had learned about Chronic Wasting Disease (‘CWD’), which now 8-years later is a hot public topic. In February 2018, I was asked to speak with Enviro-News about this topic.
The loss of millions of critically important herbivores (deer, elk and wild horses) has resulted in several serious adverse impacts costing American taxpayers…
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Fantastic write up by William Simpson explaining exactly how our country could, and should, be dealing w one of our government’s own lab leaks from the 1960’s…while exactly HOW CWD came to be about has not been verified as of yet, what the researchers from the CO facility where CWD originated from state, is that scrapie infected sheep were kept in the same pen as the deer they were studying, and the disease DID in fact jump species and turned into the CWD that we see today. Now whether this is true or not remains to be in question, as it could just be these researchers way to cover up for questionable research they were involved in that created CWD. But if scrapie jumping species theory IS what they are willing to go w on this one, then cattle and sheep ranchers have a LOT to be concerned about and should be more than willing to support whatever it takes to help prevent CWD from ending up as a deadly cattle disease, such as mad cow.
This write up is very educational. It explains a lot of things that I have wondered about. My husband has been in Siskiyou county for 70 years and has watched the decline of deer herds. He use to hunt and fish quite a bit, now he won’t hunt at all as he watched the decline in the deer herds. I have for some time now wondered why they did not put a moratorium on the deer hunting years ago, after all it was done for lions. I always heard that the hunters were actually helping the deer, although I never believed it, and believe that anyone who thinks that is deluding themselves. The hunting needs to stop periodically. If that costs jobs then so be it, but I think the poachers will supply jobs. Same for the ducks and geese also. I don’t see nearly the flyovers as I use to even 20 years ago.
Now that we have Chronic Deer Wasting the number of deer is down and is probably going to go down. Now here is where the wolves and coyotes can help. Wolves coyotes and let’s not forget the cats will take down and eat the sick deer thus remove them from the population as maybe nature intended. In time maybe no hunting until healthy herds rebound. Just a thought.