I only know what I've read and what I've seen. There's a real interesting ongoing article in that Ab htg magazine. There's also an intriguing trailer for a documentary:
http://noaccidentfilm.com/Then there's this:
In my personal opinion, the first step would be to outlaw elk farms here, elk and deer farms in Sask.. Other than that I really am not sure what to think.
As I've said in the past, over the years there's been a couple of deer I didn't shoot because they just didn't look, "right" (meaning healthwise). When I say that keep in mind I once shot a big doe that was faltered, her hooves were a good 6" long (you can bet your a$$ I scoped her from about 30 yds for a good half hour before I shot her). I took her as she looked healthy but faltered and I figured it'd be kinder for her to be on my bbq than have her eaten alive by coyote's/wolves. (she was delish by the way, all her internal organs looked great and there was no indications I could see of any problems other than maybe being a pig at the barley bin).
Personally if cwd is in fact fairly new and not just, "discovered" then if srd can, or has a very good chance of stopping the spread I say, "fill your boots". It's about my great grandchildren. When I say that keep in mind my personal, "honey hole" for deer is in 102(recently a cwd zone); I've hunted that area pretty much every year since I was 16 and at any time of the year and time of day I can tell you EXACTLY where you'll find a 4 pt mulie, a 4-5 pt WT, WT does or mule does by the herd or individually.
Again, "if" the spread can be stopped I'd gladly but sadly give up my, "given" so my decendants can enjoy the same hunting I and my forbearers have.
Flip side is that there's seldom anything new under the sun and as I've mentioned before there's a pig disease that the prions' live in the ground; I've been told of a farm that everyone in the area knows can never raise pigs again as it's been tried twice with the same diseased result. I don't believe it's been, "discovered" yet. Further about 25 yrs ago a buddy and I were diving in chin lake under the bridge, I saw a Gobi. Call it what you want, I spent many winters diving in the caribean. It was a Gobi. I called Edmonton was told in a nice but very condescending way I was a liar. A couple yrs ago I see it's been, "discovered" by someone with a gov't paycheck and a degree.
So I really don't know what to think.
Just my uneducated 2 cents.
