Since you mentioned CWD thought I would post a video link regarding a possible cure on the horizon. If this guy is correct, the prion story the game departments have been pushing is bogus. I can't verify the veracity of anything said in the following video, but it is interesting to say the least.
I personally don't care whether someone chooses to hunt over bait or not. I do not believe however, that banning baiting has much affect on combatting the spread of CWD. I base that partially on observing deer using licking branches. I have watched young deer stand on their hind legs to participate in the licking branch ritual. So what next in the battle to halt CWD, cut down all trees with low hanging branches?
We'll here in my home state, deer gather and have been gathering under fruit trees, oaks, beech etc. Centuries of this and food plot feeding nose to nose hasn't negetively affected there existence. Suddenly now, it has. I don't buy it. IF there was proof of feeding deer by humans by placing it in the woods was causing disease, I'd be for banning the issue. Since it does not, I'm not onboard with the state banning what we as hunters pay for as a resource. Control is what the DNR want and it's what they are getting. Hunters, sportsman pay for what we hunt. Bird feeders, orchards, agriculture and wild forage all contain deer in groups and herds. This will not change regardless of these banning laws. Not wanting to make this thread a CWD bait banning one but it's an issue today in many states.
For some reason this was a strange Winter though it did have the deer feeding close to my house and appearing to need more food than they normally need.
