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.
A state is updating its CWD response plan with the repeal of baiting bans and a new September rifle season for antlerless deer in CWD Surveillance Zones.
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.
The nation’s leading chronic wasting disease scientist explains how left-wing political scare tactics have gotten in the way of curing the problem.
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.
Award-winning outdoor writer Richard Smith gives his expert advice on tracking wounded deer as well as his thoughts on antler point restrictions, baiting and the spread of deer diseases.
Scientists found through their research that CWD is no different than a well-known disease that affects sheep that was passed to cervids.