Hunting rights activist Dusty Backer and Dan Schmidt discuss why the narrative about CWD doesn’t make sense given the actual research about the disease and why laws that supposedly prevent the spread of CWD actually have the opposite effect.
Hunting rights activist Dusty Backer and Dan Schmidt discuss why the narrative about CWD doesn’t make sense given the actual research about the disease and why laws that supposedly prevent the spread of CWD actually have the opposite effect.
In this episode of Deer Talk Now, Dan Schmidt talks with Texas wildlife biologist Brian Dart, author of the article “Is Live Animal Testing Causing the Spread of CWD?” The two explore the questions raised in Dart’s piece, focusing on how live animal testing is conducted and what potential implications it may have for the management of chronic wasting disease.
Want to slow the spread of chronic wasting disease? Kill more bucks. That’s what researchers are saying after posting the results of a years-long study.
Dr. James Kroll aka Dr. Deer explains why scientific reporting has gone downhill, why DNR credibility is low, and how CWD is being used as a scare tactic.
Researchers: News reports of zombie disease crossover are unfounded.
A recent news story is spreading misleading information that hunters ate venison from a CWD-infected deer and died. Here’s what’s really true.
Scientists found through their research that CWD is no different than a well-known disease that affects sheep that was passed to cervids.
Little has been done to stop chronic wasting disease, bovine tuberculosis and other diseases. Here, the author shares his knowledge on what will help as it pertains to Michigan and other big whitetail hunting states.
Zombie deer are sweeping the nation! No, they’re not. Well, not like you have been led to believe. By now you’ve seen videos of so-called zombie deer. The videos are nearly always the same: person observes a deer walking in circles, stumbling about, and showing little to no fear of humans. And, you have probably […]
Dan Schmidt discusses the headlines and legislature surrounding CWD and what he thinks about some of the outlandish claims in this latest podcast.