Cronic Wasting Disease found in Arkansas elk and deer

[Ol' Arky]

Yep it finally made it here, here\'s the link to the AGFC website where they describe their course of action... :? :?

AGFC Cronic Wasting Disease

Here\'s the news website that I saw it on last night...

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[iccyman001]

I\'ve been watching this, Phil.

It\'s a shame, but I think you guys will be good!
Mind you that will not be with ANY course of action from the you know who....




It better not hit you hard, I wanna get stationed at little rock at some point and hunt whitetail!

 

[Ol' Arky]

I\'ve been watching this, Phil.

It\'s a shame, but I think you guys will be good!
Mind you that will not be with ANY course of action from the you know who....




It better not hit you hard, I wanna get stationed at little rock at some point and hunt whitetail!

You get station at the NLR Air Force Base you got a invite to hunt the pine and blackberry brier thickets and cut overs of southern Arkansas.... At least if I\'m still around then... Matter of fact you got a invite when ever you want to come.... Might have to sleep on the couch though... :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

All the reported cases are a long way up in northern Arkansas and that\'s a long way from where we hunt... :upthumb: :upthumb: Those hill deer don\'t know how to live the thickets and cut overs of southern Arkansas...

 

[Don K]

We have CWD here where I live and when it first got reported everyone seemed to panic. Now I don\'t hear much about it, we get our deer tested for free and I know of only 1 person that had a positive deer so far. They hand the deer permits out like candy in the CWD counties as they want the population down. When a positive deer shows up they go in and wipe out all the deer they can on the farm where the positive came from. Kinda sad but they feel this helps it from spreading more.

 

[Ol' Arky]

New information fro the AGFC.. They have come up with a proposal to help combat CWD in NW Arkansas... Here\'s what it says...

CWD-focused proposals include:
Allow deer and elk hunting with the use of bait Oct. 1-Dec. 31, statewide.
Prohibit the feeding of wildlife statewide, with exceptions for bird feeders and other types of feeding that do not concentrate deer.
Prohibit the use of scents and lures that contain natural cervid urine, effective January 1, 2017.
Prohibit the rehabilitation of deer statewide.
Establish a CWD management zone in counties with known positives and those close to known positives.
Establish a private land CWD management program in the CWD management zone to allow landowners to take additional deer off their property to reduce deer density and slow the spread of the disease.
Prohibit the transport of certain portions of cervid carcasses outside the CWD management zone. This will allow only deboned meat, cleaned skull plates, hides, teeth and taxidermy products to be transported out of the CWD management zone.
Allow button bucks to be checked as antlerless deer in deer zones and WMAs within the CWD management zone.
Remove the three-point rule and increase the bag limit from four to five deer and the antlerless bag limit to three with firearms in deer zones 1 and 2.
Liberalize deer season on Bearcat Hollow, Buffalo National River, Gene Rush, Ozark National Forest, Piney Creeks, Sweden Creek Natural Area and White Rock WMAs.
Establish a core elk management zone of Boone, Carroll, Madison, Newton and Searcy counties, and allow hunters to harvest any elk found outside these counties during deer season.
Require all elk harvested to be submitted for CWD testing.
Increase the private land antlerless elk quota in the core elk management zone from 24 to 40.
Create a non-commercial hunting enclosure permit for high-fenced facilities, and require those facilities to submit CWD samples for all deer that die within the respective facility, allow annual inspections, and maintain accurate deer harvest records. There would also be a moratorium on the issuance of new permits after July 1, 2017.
All CWD-related proposals will be voted on in June, and Commissioners stressed that altering these proposals is still likely.

If passed it looks like I need to deer hunt in NW Arkansas around the core elk management zone so I\'ll have a chance to kill a Arkansas elk without drawing a permit... :lol: :mg: :lol: :mg:

 

[N&amp;N Waterfowl]

CWD is something that MO has been dealing with for quite some time. Impact, prevention, removal are all things that have been discussed and sometimes implemented in both counties that have positive tests and counties that have not yet been impacted throughout the state. However, the effectiveness/impact is a highly debated topic. Even the research tends to be contardictory at times. The only thing I can say about CWD is it is not the death sentence that some make it out to be. MO deer herd is thriving even though CWD has just recently showed up in several new counties.