CWD Keep the ban on deer baiting in Michigan

Online commentary: Keep the ban on deer baiting

4:37 PM, Jun. 7, 2011

The state Natural Resources Commission is expected to vote this week on rescinding its ban on baiting. But to allow baiting for deer again would be a reckless decision, and a sign of the commission caving to a clamorous minority.

Currently, 28 states prohibit the use of bait while hunting deer. Eight other states place heavy restrictions on this practice.

In 2008, Michigan banned the use of hunting deer over bait throughout the entire Lower Peninsula, after the discovery of a deer with chronic wasting disease at a game ranch in Kent County. This action was taken according to a comprehensive 2002 plan created to respond to such an outbreak. It is reinforced by the fact that most wildlife experts believe that unnatural concentrations of food products (bait) could serve as vectors in the transmission of this and other diseases.

In spite of these regulations, the "baiting ban" has been largely ignored by legions of hunters who have callously ignored the risks associated with this 100% fatal disease.

The NRC has reached out to experts in order to guide them in the process of crafting policy -- with science being the only rudder -- as it should. That practice was solidified with Proposal G, the 1996 ballot proposal that put game management in the hands of the commission with a requirement for science-based decision-making. To date:

• Not one of our scientists has stated that they favor baiting.

• Very few of our scientists have come out as even being neutral on baiting.

• Virtually all of our scientists and all of our experts have been resolute in voice. They are whispering a single word in to the NRC's ear: Danger!

For the NRC to ignore them is to say, in essence, that our own scientists, whom we pay for this counsel, are wrong. To ignore them is to render Proposal G as somewhat meaningless.

For the record, I have no hidden anti-baiting agenda. Prior to the ban, I regularly placed carrots and sugar beets on my hunting property, and I still have two 55-gallon spin feeders, which now have become a vibrant retirement community for about 4 zillion hornets.

My better angels tell me that the NRC understands the terrible threat associated with CWD. And, while we do not have all the answers, our only response must be to err on the side of caution. No cases of CWD have emerged in Michigan during the past three years, but the disease has been discovered a mere 100 miles from Michigan's borders in McHenry County, Illinois.

The bottom line is this: The risk is too great, and the resource is too precious.

The NRC seems to believe that this decision will affect only the 6% of the population who happen to be hunters. That is folly. These matters touch all citizens who love and respect the abundant resources within our state. The commission should not be responding to a minority so entrenched in a practice that it is willing to risk the resource.

Maintaining the ban on baiting will not be a popular decision for the NRC, but it is the right decision. And, while new cases of CWD may ultimately emerge, 100 years from now citizens will be able to look back at the right decision that the NRC took this year and say; "At least they did their part."

Bill Audette of Lake Orion is an avid outdoor enthusiast and owner of Orion Automotive, LLC, a marketing and financial products consulting agency.

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NRC proposes lifting ban on deer baiting and feeding in Lower Peninsula

By Steve Griffin for the Daily News | Posted: Sunday, May 15, 2011 7:00 am

http://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article_b13a6779-69c3-54aa-84cf-d1fa30e8547b.html



D. Baiting and Feeding of Deer in the Lower Peninsula Wildlife Conservation Order Amendment No. 10 of 2011............................24-30

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/agnJune11_354207_7.pdf




WITH more and more science showing the environmental exposure and infection there from via CWD shedding etc, and of course the environmental risk factors of TB, in my opinion, to legalize any sort of baiting again, in my opinion is absurd. but i suppose those recreational hunters that need the bait to have their kill walk right up on them, i suppose there voices may be louder, and their pocket books bigger, and they may win out. if so, a tough loss for Michigan, and another step backwards. ...


kind regards,

terry


CWD, GAME FARMS, BAITING, AND POLITICS

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2009/01/cwd-game-farms-baiting-and-politics.html


http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2008/08/cwd-feeding-and-baiting-piles.html


Thursday, February 17, 2011

Environmental Sources of Scrapie Prions

http://scrapie-usa.blogspot.com/2011/02/environmental-sources-of-scrapie-prions.html


Saturday, May 14, 2011

Modeling Routes of Chronic Wasting Disease Transmission: Environmental Prion Persistence Promotes Deer Population Decline and Extinction

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2011/05/modeling-routes-of-chronic-wasting.html


Monday, February 14, 2011

THE ROLE OF PREDATION IN DISEASE CONTROL: A COMPARISON OF SELECTIVE AND NONSELECTIVE REMOVAL ON PRION DISEASE DYNAMICS IN DEER


NO, NO, NOT NO, BUT HELL NO !


Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 47(1), 2011, pp. 78-93 © Wildlife Disease Association 2011

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2011/02/role-of-predation-in-disease-control.html


Friday, February 25, 2011

Soil clay content underlies prion infection odds

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2011/02/soil-clay-content-underlies-prion.html


Wednesday, January 07, 2009

CWD to tighten taxidermy rules Hunters need to understand regulations

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2009/01/cwd-to-tighten-taxidermy-rules-hunters.html


Monday, February 22, 2010

Aerosol and Nasal Transmission of Chronic Wasting Disease in Cervidized Mice

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2010/02/aerosol-and-nasal-transmission-of.html


AS THE CROW FLIES, SO DOES CWD



Sunday, November 01, 2009

American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) and potential spreading of CWD through feces of digested infectious carcases

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2009/11/american-crows-corvus-brachyrhynchos.html


Monday, July 13, 2009

Deer Carcass Decomposition and Potential Scavenger Exposure to Chronic Wasting Disease

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2009/07/deer-carcass-decomposition-and.html


Sunday, December 06, 2009

Detection of Sub-Clinical CWD Infection in Conventional Test-Negative Deer Long after Oral Exposure to Urine and Feces from CWD+ Deer

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2009/12/detection-of-sub-clinical-cwd-infection.html


THEN YOU have water that has been contaminated from a CWD-endemic area ;


Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Detection of protease-resistant cervid prion protein in water from a CWD-endemic area

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2009/10/detection-of-protease-resistant-cervid.html


ALSO, NOTE MINERAL LICKS A POSSIBLE SOURCE AND TRANSMISSION MODE FOR CWD ;


http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2009/08/third-international-cwd-symposium-july.html


http://www.cwd-info.org/pdf/3rd_CWD_Symposium_utah.pdf



Thursday, May 26, 2011


Travel History, Hunting, and Venison Consumption Related to Prion Disease Exposure, 2006-2007 FoodNet Population Survey


Journal of the American Dietetic Association Volume 111, Issue 6 , Pages 858-863, June 2011.


http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2011/05/travel-history-hunting-and-venison.html


Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Generation of a new form of human PrPSc in vitro by inter-species transmission from cervids prions

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2011/01/generation-of-new-form-of-human-prpsc.html


Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Presence and Seeding Activity of Pathological Prion Protein (PrPTSE) in Skeletal Muscles of White-Tailed Deer Infected with Chronic Wasting Disease

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2011/04/presence-and-seeding-activity-of.html


Wednesday, January 5, 2011

ENLARGING SPECTRUM OF PRION-LIKE DISEASES Prusiner Colby et al 2011

Prions

David W. Colby1,* and Stanley B. Prusiner1,2

http://betaamyloidcjd.blogspot.com/2011/01/enlarging-spectrum-of-prion-like.html



UPDATED DATA ON 2ND CWD STRAIN

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

CWD PRION CONGRESS SEPTEMBER 8-11 2010

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2010/09/cwd-prion-2010.html



Saturday, May 14, 2011

Modeling Routes of Chronic Wasting Disease Transmission: Environmental Prion Persistence Promotes Deer Population Decline and Extinction

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2011/05/modeling-routes-of-chronic-wasting.html



Wednesday, June 01, 2011

Management of CWD in Canada: Past Practices, Current Conditions, Current Science, Future Risks and Options

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2011/06/management-of-cwd-in-canada-past.html



Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Chronic Wasting Disease DOI: 10.1007/128_2011_159 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2011/05/chronic-wasting-disease-doi.html



Friday, May 13,

2011 EFSA Joint Scientific Opinion on any possible epidemiological or molecular association between TSEs in animals and humans

http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2011/05/efsa-joint-scientific-opinion-on-any.html



Topics in Current Chemistry, 2011, 1-28, DOI: 10.1007/128_2011_161

Atypical Prion Diseases in Humans and Animals

Michael A. Tranulis, Sylvie L. Benestad, Thierry Baron and Hans Kretzschmar

Abstract

Although prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and scrapie in sheep, have long been recognized, our understanding of their epidemiology and pathogenesis is still in its early stages. Progress is hampered by the lengthy incubation periods and the lack of effective ways of monitoring and characterizing these agents. Protease-resistant conformers of the prion protein (PrP), known as the “scrapie form” (PrPSc), are used as disease markers, and for taxonomic purposes, in correlation with clinical, pathological, and genetic data. In humans, prion diseases can arise sporadically (sCJD) or genetically (gCJD and others), caused by mutations in the PrP-gene (PRNP), or as a foodborne infection, with the agent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) causing variant CJD (vCJD). Person-to-person spread of human prion disease has only been known to occur following cannibalism (kuru disease in Papua New Guinea) or through medical or surgical treatment (iatrogenic CJD, iCJD). In contrast, scrapie in small ruminants and chronic wasting disease (CWD) in cervids behave as infectious diseases within these species. Recently, however, so-called atypical forms of prion diseases have been discovered in sheep (atypical/Nor98 scrapie) and in cattle, BSE-H and BSE-L. These maladies resemble sporadic or genetic human prion diseases and might be their animal equivalents. This hypothesis also raises the significant public health question of possible epidemiological links between these diseases and their counterparts in humans.

Keywords Animal - Atypical - Atypical/Nor98 scrapie - BSE-H - BSE-L - Human - Prion disease - Prion strain - Prion type

http://resources.metapress.com/pdf-preview.axd?code=f433r34h34ugg617&size=largest



MUCH MORE HERE ;


Monday, May 23, 2011

Atypical Prion Diseases in Humans and Animals 2011

Top Curr Chem (2011)

DOI: 10.1007/128_2011_161

# Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

http://bse-atypical.blogspot.com/2011/05/atypical-prion-diseases-in-humans-and.html



Saturday, March 5, 2011




MAD COW ATYPICAL CJD PRION TSE CASES WITH CLASSIFICATIONS PENDING ON THE RISE IN NORTH AMERICA



http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2011/03/mad-cow-atypical-cjd-prion-tse-cases.html




Tuesday, April 26, 2011



sporadic CJD RISING Text and figures of the latest annual report of the NCJDRSU covering the period 1990-2009 (published 11th March 2011)



http://creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.blogspot.com/2011/04/sporadic-cjd-rising-text-and-figures-of.html







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