Latest data says no such thing as CWD, it was based on contaminated lab results in the sixties.

If you don’t know what I’m referencing then you are way behind the power curve and completely uniformed (ignorant).

Probably the same with your opinions on Coronaviri.

So its all political and subjective.

It will take some time for those who justify there existence off of CWD to let go just like the coronaviri disciples.

Y’all know the type, its like a game warden that writes you or an excited 8 year old kid a ticket for bringing up the wrong sized fish from depth and keeping it. You know the fish, you bring them up so fast they explode and die but the kid is happy anyway and you figure why waste a dead fish instead of throwing back a dead fish…Yeah, those type demons !

Latest data says no such thing as CWD, it was based on contaminated lab results in the sixties.

If you don’t know what I’m referencing then you are way behind the power curve and completely uniformed (ignorant).

Probably the same with your opinions on Coronaviri.

So its all political and subjective.

It will take some time for those who justify there existence off of CWD to let go just like the coronaviri disciples.

Y’all know the type, its like a game warden that writes you or an excited 8 year old kid a ticket for bringing up the wrong sized fish from depth and keeping it. You know the fish, you bring them up so fast they explode and die but the kid is happy anyway and you figure why waste a dead fish instead of throwing back a dead fish…Yeah, those type demons !

This CWD initiative is probably being done to make feeding deer illegal.

Well, I sure hate to see those deer need to be euthanized, but I sure hate to see non captive deer get the disease too. Disease carrying prions don't stop at a fence of any kind. At some point in anything, our system of our government agencies has to do what they believe they need to do. Its pretty likely, especially here in Texas, that those folks in TPWD kinda like deer and people's businesses that relate to deer, and other wildlife and would sure not like to rock any boats if they don't believe they need to. It's also pretty likely that they know a hell of a lot more than me or most others on this issue.

I attended the TPWD commission meeting on these practices and heard interesting and well thought out testimony on both sides. Seemed pretty clear though that this was a collision of private interest versus public harm, and in no issue of any kind should private interest be allowed to harm those of the public. That is what made and should make America great, its why we started this whole experiment as different from any previous form of living together as a society.

I sure didn't like the way the Fort Worth newspaper's article made this sound like the big bad government was out to kill someone's pets. Its our agency trying to protect our deer held in public trust for all of our benefit.

I spent last weekend volunteering on public lands habitat work with the West Texas mule deer biologist and yes, they sure are doing what they can and they sure do care. Trying to contain CWD in a captive herd and a wild herd are two different, well animals.

I would not doubt that.

Sounds pretty simple eliminate the heard, what they do every where else in TX.

Ha, if you think they arrived at their policy to eliminate a CWD positive captive deer herd "simply" then you are extremely unaware of the issue and its subsequent TPWD policies. Whether one agrees with their policies or not, no policy or action has been "pretty simple" for anyone. As for what they do with non-captive CWD cases, hell if I know, they do what they do. Because they know what to do and I don't need to know what they do. Although to be honest, I have been briefed on it a number of times and I didn't really listen, I was thinking about what I can and need to do to continue conserving and restoring hunting and wildlife.

By the way, our own Texas Wildlife Association and its dearly departed expert Dr. Bob, who's wife very emotionally testified before the TPWD commission on this issue, are in full support of TPWD's policies and actions in regards to CWD.

I was heavily into it, going all the way back to when TAHC and TPWD were fighting over federal funding dollars for it aka jurisdiction.

It’s been an on going debate in TX for 10 years and nationally for 50 years. I see you swiped right over my population comment.

West TX population containment would of been real simple if they would of taken the same methodology as they do with private containment, as those areas are some of the lowest population densities in TX , but they choose not to follow their own policies. Probably because they don’t work.

End of the day CWD expression takes longer then most natural life spans.

It’s a Waste of Tax payer money.