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Russell Graves - Believes whitetails shouldn't be photographed in the back of a truck with their tongue hanging out.
Location - Texas
Brian Strickland - Has 369,518 acres of land that you can hunt on. Call him at (555) 281-HUNT.
Location - Colorado
Tony Hansen - Is pretty confident Michigan will release at least 300,000 archers into the woods this fall.
Location - Michigan
Jake Fagan - He's really just here to hang out, so don't mind him.
Location - Georgia
Will Brantley - Loves hunting in a dorag because it makes him look Ramboish. Some may call it Little Man Syndrome.
Location - Tennessee
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Could It Be?
Here's what's happened. A whitetail doe in a Kent County (southwestern Michigan) deer farm tested positive for CWD. All deer on that farm were killed and tested with no other positive results being found. Four other deer that had been moved from that farm to other enclosures in the state were killed and tested. This week, the Michigan Department of Agriculture announced that those deer also did not have CWD.
That's great news. But it does leave me wondering just how that deer came down with CWD? It obviously caught it somewhere. The deer, according to records from the Kent County farm, was born on that farm so it wasn't brought in from elsewhere. So where did the CWD come from?
Well now the DNR and MDA are looking at "taxidermy ties" in the case. Seems the Kent County farm is also a taxidermy operation and it's possible the disease was brought in from a hide or head for mounting purposes. I'll keep you posted. And I'll continue to hope that Michigan has dodged a big, big bullet.
Tony Hansen, Michigan Man
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