Request Admins to do a CWD sticky MEGA thread

Why not? It only going to keep spreading and get worse and there is a new thread every week asking the same thing that has been discussed numerous times.

Put a sticky and link all previous threads.

Right across the river in MS.

Because stickies get ignored after a while.

I would think that on an outdoor forum, that a subject of such importance that affects one of the most discussed topics, being deer hunting, would not be ignored.
I request a sticky also.

I request also that Chucken be woke up and rule on this.

It has less posts than the thread about browning having stock finish issues. CWD does not generate the attention it deserves because a small percentage of outdoorsmen really truely give a shite. In reality very very few people are currently affected and the ones that aren't would prefer to keep their heads in the sand.

Outlaw supplemental feeding of wild game at the federal level, kill and test more deer in high concentration areas that are positive carriers, and start trying to understand the disease and how to better test for it.

The biggest development that needs to happen IMO is some type of field test, like a pH strip for CWD that hunters could perform themselves. The first step is doing better research, the state doesnt have the manpower to do it but the hunters do if given the tools.

Of course you are dealing with rednecks, outlaws, barely functional retards, and other dregs that make up the "deer hunting" population in this country. Asking to do anything half arse organized is a stretch

Downshift, this has been studied for over 50 years. They still know very little. The last thing we need is overreaction in the name of “doing something”.

The drop off area for the Jackson area is up at the Hwy 43 bridge. If they want heads, they should set up a drop off by Vans deer processing.
I did hear that Louisiana tested a bunch from a Tensas draw hunt. Not sure if that’s correct.

Doesn’t really matter, though. I’ll save them a lot of trouble and tell them that CWD is here. And nothing they’re doing is making a difference.
If corn is the problem, why did this start and spread in N Colorado and Wyoming? You don’t see many feeders out there.

Stopping corn piles and testing more deer is hardly overreacting, the former is effortless to implement. Just make a rule. The latter requires more resources but we are going off such a minute sample size now that I have a hard time taking any data on it seriously other than "we've confirmed it here"

Cut it out for 10 years, test more deer, observe the results.

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This needs to be an abandoned talking point. There are very clear extreme differences between natural feed distribution and a mountain of corn/rice bran. The one that's much tougher to discuss is agriculture which also concentrates populations, and we actually need that.

I agree transporting deer is a horrible idea and the disease is here to stay. Doesn't mean we should not pick the low hanging fruit on mitigating the spread.

Imo what it probably means is we have far beyond the carrying capacity of deer in the affected area. Nature will find a way to regulate population density and this might be it. I dont think deer were ever meant to be densely populated anywhere.