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CWD positive deer have been confirmed in Madison and Pope counties.
Posted on 3/23/16 at 1:38 pm
Posted on 3/23/16 at 1:38 pm
Deer hunting may never be the same in Arkansas.
CWD is spreading
CWD is spreading
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Posted on 3/23/16 at 1:41 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
Tack on another 15 mile radius to it.
Sucks for the folks up there making a living off of the sport, looks like its just something that we are all going to have to live with.
Sucks for the folks up there making a living off of the sport, looks like its just something that we are all going to have to live with.
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Posted on 3/23/16 at 4:22 pm to Pigfeet
Nah, they extended it to Ponca when they found the first whitetail. The second whitetail was in the core area so they haven't had to expand anymore yet.
Both deer had died which means it has been in the area for at least a couple of years
Both deer had died which means it has been in the area for at least a couple of years
This post was edited on 3/23/16 at 4:24 pm
Posted on 3/23/16 at 11:08 pm to Raz4back
I kinda want to throw out the deer meat from the one I killed in the Ozarks this year.
Posted on 3/24/16 at 7:05 am to CtotheVrzrbck
Posted on 3/24/16 at 8:32 am to Raz4back
With the way this Prion can survive on the ground for an unknown amount of time and how it can infect plants, looks like this is only going to get worse
Posted on 3/24/16 at 8:34 am to wmr
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I kinda want to throw out the deer meat from the one I killed in the Ozarks this year.
Researchers with the Federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, along with the World Health Organization, have studied CWD and have found no evidence that CWD poses a serious risk to humans or domestic animals. Years of monitoring in affected areas has found no similar disease in people or cattle living there. However, as a precaution, CDC and the Arkansas Department of Health advise that no part of a deer or elk with evidence of CWD should be consumed by people or other animals.
Double talk?
This post was edited on 3/24/16 at 8:36 am
Posted on 3/24/16 at 8:58 am to Pigfeet
quote:Whole lot of CYA in that statement for certain.
Researchers with the Federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, along with the World Health Organization, have studied CWD and have found no evidence that CWD poses a serious risk to humans or domestic animals. Years of monitoring in affected areas has found no similar disease in people or cattle living there. However, as a precaution, CDC and the Arkansas Department of Health advise that no part of a deer or elk with evidence of CWD should be consumed by people or other animals.
Double talk?
Posted on 3/24/16 at 9:39 am to Notherdamnhog
damn, 19 out of 49 samples. Not a good # at all.
has anyone seen a map of the focal area? curious how far away my property is from the infected herds.
has anyone seen a map of the focal area? curious how far away my property is from the infected herds.
Posted on 3/24/16 at 10:37 am to CtotheVrzrbck
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has anyone seen a map of the focal area?
The latest one
AGFC
Next public meeting is tonight, they normally stream it live
Title Weekly public meeting scheduled to discuss Chronic Wasting Disease (Jasper)
Date 03/24/2016
Facebook post, lively comments
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Posted on 3/24/16 at 11:02 am to CtotheVrzrbck
"In the mid-1980s, CWD was detected in free-ranging deer and elk in contiguous portions of northeastern Colorado and southeastern Wyoming. Soon after diagnosis of the disease as a TSE, Colorado and Wyoming wildlife management agencies stopped the movement of deer and elk"
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"In 1981, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, in cooperation with private citizens, initiated another elk restoration project in the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas. Between 1981 and 1985, 112 elk from Colorado and Nebraska were released in Newton County. All release sites were near the Buffalo National River."
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Could this have been brought here by the elk we brought in the 80's?
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"In 1981, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, in cooperation with private citizens, initiated another elk restoration project in the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas. Between 1981 and 1985, 112 elk from Colorado and Nebraska were released in Newton County. All release sites were near the Buffalo National River."
LINK
Could this have been brought here by the elk we brought in the 80's?
Posted on 3/24/16 at 12:46 pm to Ronaldo Burgundiaz
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Could this have been brought here by the elk we brought in the 80's?
Originally I would have said no, but I'm beginning to wonder. I've talked to several people that have seen sick and dead elk over the course of many years and the AGFC attributed it to brain worms. Elk with brain worms have very similar symptoms to elk with CWD.
Although the initial prevalence rates are a little skewed by the AGFC targeting sick animals and testing animals that were found dead, it's pretty obvious to me that CWD has been in the area for years.
Posted on 4/1/16 at 12:15 am to Raz4back
27 more positives to run the total up to 50
Posted on 4/1/16 at 12:23 am to Raz4back
damn. put a fork in it. Deer hunting is done as we knew it.
Posted on 4/1/16 at 4:42 am to Raz4back
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27 more positives to run the total up to 50
damn
Posted on 4/5/16 at 1:58 pm to Pigfeet
Posted on 4/5/16 at 3:53 pm to Pigfeet
Could the leaky Dogpatch sewer system that's been contaminating the ground water and the Buffalo watershed have a play in this?
Posted on 4/6/16 at 10:24 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
If it's not in other parts of the state then initially I would look at the elk herd as the source of the contagion.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 10:26 pm to PygmalionEffect
my dollar says genetic mutations from the elk herd. The initial animals had the dna markers for it and over time and a few reproduction cycles it appeared and went undetected for who knows how many years.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 7:49 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
Up to 79 positives out of 327 completed tests
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