Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Chronic Wasting Disease Spreads to Northern Wisconsin, Doubles in Prevalence in past 10 Years

Wisconsin's solution to controlling deer overpopulation and disease has always been to support more hunting - longer hunting seasons with more harvesting allowed.  However, that might be the problem.  I'm not a wildlife biologist, but I don't see any other wild animal which is native to Wisconsin as out of control as the deer population - which number in the hundreds of thousands of deer killed annually.  Might they actually consider fewer hunting permits issued?  Or is that too unpopular with the gun, ammo, and hunting industries?

Link:  http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/deer-with-chronic-wasting-disease-came-from-up-north-dnr-says-4i5adar-150464095.html

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