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"The Province is implementing a mandatory sampling program that requires hunters to submit the heads from deer harvested in wildlife management units 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 4-5, 4-6 and 4-7 in the Kootenay Region, after Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks discovered five animals with Chronic Wasting Disease 60 km south of the B.C. border." Both Mulies and Whities.
Here's the link on Gov't website: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/s...ortant-notices
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HuntingBC Champ
And in the Peace region 7b...
HuntingBC Champ
Does anyone know if the just the brain can be brought in minus the skull.
A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life wrote a blank check
Made payable for an amount of 'up to
and including my life'. That is Honor, and there are way too many people
in This country who no longer understand it.'
You only walk this Earth once,
make sure your tracks are deep.
HuntingBC Champ
Well, thanks for posting it up folks.
Obviously BC is being responsible in tracking.
As to what can be done about it in the end, who knows???
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A few of us here have been dropping heads off for a long time. Over 20 years. Some of them are probably still in the Ministry freezer. It's a good initiative. Required if we really are wanting to monitor CWD.
HuntingBC Champ
Sadly more money going into another problem.
Less money going into Rehab.
Sure isn't a lot to be happy about these days in the BC hunting world. (fishing as well I suppose)
The thing is Transmission.
IS it only transmitted thru the ground and feeding, or is it spread thru breeding as well??
If it is both, then there isn't squat we will be able to do about it (other than finding a cure)
If it is thru soil/feed, then maybe we can impose one thing:
I have no issue with baiting sites (plenty of farm fields anyways that act as such).
But maybe we could require that all feed has to be grown/produced /manufactured and distributed "only in BC"???.
I could see how bringing in feed from other places such as Alberta or USA could be "contaminated" and assist in the spread.
But then again, who's to say a 4x4 doesn't pick up mud with contamination from elsewhere and drops it while driving the backwoods here???
Anyways, it's coming and doubt we can stop it.
Guess the mandatory testing will tell us soon.
Wouldn't doubt if this is the season where we have it found in BC.
HuntingBC Champ
Would we be able to submit the sample at any region such as when I got back to the lower mainland
HuntingBC Champ
Man this cwd stuff is scary. Even if a cure were to be found, how on earth could you hope to inoculate/cure all the deer moose and elk?? You’d maybe be able to slow its spread and that’s it....
HuntingBC Champ
So for clarification, i just got off the phone with the Ministry, animals in the Kootenay' are mandatory submission, the Peace still remains at voluntary submission\
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A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life wrote a blank check
Made payable for an amount of 'up to
and including my life'. That is Honor, and there are way too many people
in This country who no longer understand it.'
You only walk this Earth once,
make sure your tracks are deep.
HuntingBC Champ
Does that mean no mounting of any bucks harvested in those zones ?
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