So then are you going to be the flag bearer calling for the slaughter of all the mule deer and elk in the CWD area in West Texas? Everyone else seems to be occupied with slaughtering all breeder pen deer and stop breeders from operating. Those free-ranging animals are still moving around and spreading CWD to who knows where by now.

[quote=stxranchman][quote=Nogalus Prairie]And y'all said it was only me and few other nuts on here.


To give you an answer: Private Property rights on a free range herd (access), very different consequence on a permitted deer operation. Its that a permitted operation the permit allows the landowner to possess and manage that herd. If the situation is considered illegal or potentially harmful to wild deer populations then the permit can be pulled or herd eradicated. The landowner may manage the deer but does not own them. Contrary to current uninformed individuals.

Now if you have the intuition to analyze and explore deer movements and populations in far west Texas (MD) then you would come to the conclusion that those particular animals are isolated and the rate of migration is extremely low and slow. TPWD has admitted the CWD in the MD animals in Culberson and Hudspeth Co's may have been there for some time before detection without spreading to adjacent herds and feel confident that the spread and infection rate would take a considerable time say 20-50 years to expound beyond their current range. Most fear came from contaminated carcass hauled all over the state and deposited who knows where. Detection has been slow due low harvest and collection number and was only discovered after a precise collection effort.

Deer breeder moving deer is a different ball of wax and CWD movement across the state is capable in as little as one year. This scenario is the worst in terms of epidemiology control of a disease, through private property rights and access to possible infected herds and CWD gets statewide in a few years not decades or a half a century as in the case of Trans-Pecos MD. The Elk have the same issues concerning private property rights, no one can walk onto your property to remove those animals with a warrant to trespass, in deer breeders its that permit they agreed to gives the state management authority the trespass warrant to inspect and oversee the regulation of that particular herd.

Being a rancher and livestock owner you should review USDA quarantine/eradication procedures for highly contagious disease such as foot and mouth...... you lose everything.

So then are you going to be the flag bearer calling for the slaughter of all the mule deer and elk in the CWD area in West Texas? Everyone else seems to be occupied with slaughtering all breeder pen deer and stop breeders from operating. Those free-ranging animals are still moving around and spreading CWD to who knows where by now.