PINE ISLAND — Sharpshooters shooting deer in the Pine Island area will complete their work Friday night.
The state Department of Natural Resources brought the sharpshooters in to shoot deer so they can be tested for chronic wasting disease, and to lower numbers of deer to decrease chances of the disease spreading.
As of Monday, 716 deer a year old or older have been shot by local people, sharpshooters or found killed along roads. All were tested and all have been negative, said Lou Cornicelli, head of the Department of Natural Resources big-game coordinator and CWD response team incident commander.
In addition, nearly 400 younger deer were tested and all were negative, but they won't count in the final sample.
Final sample results should be known April 6.
The shoot began in late January after a deer shot by a bow hunter last fall near Pine Island was found positive for CWD, a disease that is fatal to deer but one that experts say has never hurt humans or cattle. The positive test was done in January and the DNR immediately put its CWD surveillance plan into action.
The department wants to get at least 900 adult deer for sampling, Cornicelli said. If it gets that many and all prove negative, statistically it means there's 99 percent probability that CWD is in less than 0.05 percent of the population, he said. The DNR estimated about 6,500 deer were within 10 miles of where the infected deer was shot.
If that's true, there's a good chance CWD was found very early and maybe can be stopped, he said. Wisconsin and other states weren't as lucky and have a much bigger problem.
Even if all are negative, the DNR has said it plans to have a special zone during this fall's hunting season that will allow more deer to be shot. There could also be restrictions on where deer can be taken before they're tested.
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Special Zone? Sounds similar to WI
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DropTyne wrote:Special Zone? Sounds similar to WI
Sounds like they are taking the wrong aproach...
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being a guy that hunts and lives in the CWD zone, have you ever seen a deer that looked sickly or was dying from CWD? Just curious if you or anyone else has seen this, I have not............
being a guy that hunts and lives in the CWD zone, have you ever seen a deer that looked sickly or was dying from CWD? Just curious if you or anyone else has seen this, I have not............
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dan wrote:DropTyne wrote:Special Zone? Sounds similar to WI
Sounds like they are taking the wrong aproach...
Ya they do seem to be going down that path, as of now only the original deer tested positive so if they don't find any more I think we will fine. If another deer tests positive look out.
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DropTyne wrote:Dan,
being a guy that hunts and lives in the CWD zone, have you ever seen a deer that looked sickly or was dying from CWD? Just curious if you or anyone else has seen this, I have not............
I have asked the same question to anybody I know that hunts the CWD zones and so far nobody has ever seen a sick deer. The only thing sick is our DNR management!
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