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Originally Posted by sheephunter
It has been proven that crowding deer in one area and having them eat where they urinate and deficate can speed up the spread of CWD....it's not a big leap to apply it to baiting.
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Actually if you look at all the data that is already out there, it is a very big leap and a gross assumption made be many..
As we all can attest, wintering habits find these deer crowding around hay stacks, leaking grain bins, ext. In all reality these are artificial man made buffets in a natural setting.. Even trying to eliminate these, deer feed in general areas depending on time of year and contact with the prion that causes CWD is inevitable..
If artificial "baiting" was a large contributor to the spread of disease, well the numbers from one side of the wheat boarder to the other would obviously be greater proving this theory.. It's not, almost identical patterns in Alberta vs. Sask along the boarder providing us all with data the proves our personal assumptions are not valid.