I love when people complain about baiting as unethical, but they have a "food plot"

We cannot hunt over bait here in Va and cannot use deer urine as an attractant (only synthetic urine) due to concerns over the spread of CWD. I don't know that it makes any difference, but here is what I do know. Pa recently experienced a 200% increase in CWD year over year in their CWD control areas using these same control techniques. Obviously the folks making wildlife control decisions in Pa don't know what works either because the results of their efforts are dismal.

This moron proliferates because appeals to the lowest common denominator. Not unlike others frequently in the news.

gryhkl, I am no expert on prions but do know they are extremely difficult to destroy. Game management and the control of disease is not my area of expertise. However, I do know that if what you are doing is not working, something else should be tried. Instead, the Pa strategy is to expand the area in which their control attempts are not working. That strategy is obviously doomed to failure. So, wiping out the deer population in the problem area is not a strategy that I would criticize until it is tried and shown to be unsuccessful. I know of nowhere where it has been tried, but I do know that CWD is continuing to expand and is likely to continue to do so unless alternate strategies are tried.

In this instance I agree with Ted when he says the restrictions are based on junk science. That is not meant to support or oppose the restrictions, only to say the basis for their imposition is faulty.

I hope we never see the hunting of deer over bait allowed in PA.

This moron proliferates because appeals to the lowest common denominator. Not unlike others frequently in the news.

Do you know anything about what prions are and how the work?
Short of wiping out the deer population, what method do you think the PA Game Commision should try?

Ted is occasionally right,