If I could get my hands on some CWD in a bottle and release it here, and not get caught, I would.
I know you said this out of frustration but dying from CWD is a horrible way to go out for a deer (or cow, sheep, or human that has contracted similar prion diseases).
People dying from a car collision with a deer is not a good way to go either, Bluestem. What's more important, people and their food, or deer? I know of numerous cases of that in my area. My crop damage is but a part of my frustrations with deer here. You would not believe the property damage to vehicles in our part of the world. Deer hit them, manage to make it into the woods and die a slow death. People die from the collisions. Body shops are making out like bandits, to the point that you cannot get any of them to do a whole vehicle paint job for you. They are making too much money from deer collisions. And who's paying for those repairs? Not the insurance companies. Yeah, they pay the shop bill, but their actuaries make sure we all pay enough in premiums that the insurance companies are still making lots of profits.
Yes, I said it out of frustration, but I meant it. Desperate times call for desperate measures. We desperately get depradation permits during the crops' growing season to kill deer. Ten to a permit. The DNR says "When you fill that one call back and we'll issue another." They know they're largely to blame for managing the seasons and bag limits to maximize the carrying capacity of the land in terms of deer numbers. Now they're holding hearings to hear what the farmers and other residents have to say about the numbers of deer. What needs to happen is a class action lawsuit brought by citizens, against the DNR, who have lost untold millions due to crop and vehicle damage. Would I unleash CWD on the deer here if I could? In a skinny minute.
