Another CWD Post

[tailchasers]

Like most I've seen what's happening across the county about CWD. Seems all that most state's are doing is increasing harvest, changing buck to doe ratios, reducing feeding programs, and continue data collection along with more research while the infection rate increases and spreads. CWD is nothing new with research showing some control methods that successfully target prions yet the states continue with the infected or potentially infected animal reductions. Fire is one identified means of reducing prions as well has a common magnesium oxide but yet they seemingly leave these tools on the shelf! There's more control methods available as opposed to shooting but yet here we sit today with the states scratching their heads openly killing all the critters we have paid them to manage. What gives? Seems to me we are stuck with an environmentalist mentality of game management creating yet one more reason to reduce hunting opportunity.


"Courage is being scared to death but
saddling up anyway."

 

[Tristate]

Can you share some links to science regarding fire, magnesium oxide, and CWD? Much thanks

 

[tailchasers]

Carriers.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0050623

Manganese Oxide
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...Vaw3kd0Vrm1e7v9vM2Mhqwd7m&cshid=1577390304239

Fire.
https://www.drovers.com/article/burning-might-help-prevent-cwd-transmission

Although I have not been able to locate the follow up study from the impacts of fire it has been identified that removal of infected plant material via fire does reduce the prions within the infected area to carbon effectively inactivating the prion.

"Courage is being scared to death but
saddling up anyway."