USDA TO PGC ONCE CAPTIVES ESCAPE "it‘s no longer its business.”
USDA TO PGC ONCE CAPTIVES ESCAPE "it‘s no longer its business.”
Commission, sportsmen pay for fences around deer farm
Published: Saturday, January 5, 2013, 8:54 p.m. Updated 12 hours ago
Sportsmen have paid to keep wild deer from accessing a farm connected to
the discovery of chronic wasting disease this past fall.
The bill, to rebuild fences, was not theirs to pay. But pay it they did,
through the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
The farm is located in York County. No wasting disease was found there. But
it was one of the first four put under quarantine by the Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture because of its connection to an Adams County farm where the
disease was discovered. The quarantine means, among other things, that fences
are to be maintained so that wild deer cannot move onto the property and perhaps
contract the disease.
The department of agriculture — in response to questions in a letter from
the Pennsylvania federation of Sportsmen‘s Clubs — indicated re-fencing should
occur. It said its quarantine order allows for criminal and civil penalties
against deer farmers who don‘t live up to its mandates.
“This provides a very strong incentive to re-fence such areas,” its letter
to the Federation reads.
But with no fences rebuilt months after the disease‘s discovery and no
indication that they would be any time soon, the Game Commission decided it
couldn‘t wait any longer. It paid to re-fence the farm in an attempt to protect
wild deer.
“We would have waited a long, long time ... putting free-roaming deer at
risk,” said Cal DuBrock, director of the commission‘s bureau of wildlife
management. “It was an investment worth making.”
Commission executive director Carl Roe did not say how much money the
agency spent, but said “it was an expense.”
In the meantime, the commission is taking a more aggressive approach to
dealing with escaped deer.
Two such animals got loose from deer farms this fall. The department of
agriculture — again, to the consternation of the Federation — did not notify the
public of the escapes. It explained its silence by saying that once a deer is
outside a fence, whether it got there intentionally or not, it‘s no longer its
business.
“The department … defers to the Game Commission once a deer is considered
wild or free ranging,” reads its letter to the Federation. Because such escapes
are “numerous” in any given year, DuBrock said, the commission has asked the
agriculture department to immediately notify executive director Carl Roe,
DuBrock and veterinarian Walt Cottrell of them. From there, wildlife
conservation officers have the green light to shoot those deer as soon as safely
possible “and figure out the ownership later,” DuBrock said.
Bob Frye is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at
bfrye@tribweb.com or via Twitter @bobfryeoutdoors.
“Two such animals got loose from deer farms this fall. The department of
agriculture — again, to the consternation of the Federation — did not notify the
public of the escapes. It explained its silence by saying that once a deer is
outside a fence, whether it got there intentionally or not, it‘s no longer its
business.”
LIKE I said before, the only reason that the shooting pen owners want the
USDA et al as stewards of that industry, it’s the lack of oversight by the USDA
to regulate them properly, thus, CWD will spread further. this is just another
fine example of just that $$$
THE states are going to have to regulate how many farms that are allowed,
or every state in the USA will wind up being just one big private fenced in game
farm. kind of like they did with the shrimping industry in the bays, when there
got to be too many shrimp boats, you stop issuing permits, and then lower the
exist number of permits, by not renewing them, due to reduced permits issued.
how many states have $465,000., and can quarantine and purchase there from,
each cwd said infected farm, but how many states can afford this for all the cwd
infected cervid game ranch type farms ???
11,000 game farms X $465,000., do all these game farms have insurance to
pay for this risk of infected the wild cervid herds, in each state ???
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CWD WISCONSIN Almond Deer (Buckhorn Flats) Farm
Update DECEMBER 2011
The CWD infection rate was nearly 80%, the highest ever in a North American
captive herd.
RECOMMENDATION: That the Board approve the purchase of 80 acres of land for
$465,000 for the Statewide Wildlife Habitat Program in Portage County and
approve the restrictions on public use of the site.
Form 1100-001 (R 2/11) NATURAL RESOURCES BOARD AGENDA ITEM
SUBJECT: Information Item: Almond Deer Farm Update
FOR: DECEMBER 2011 BOARD MEETING TUESDAY TO BE PRESENTED BY TITLE: Tami
Ryan, Wildlife Health Section Chief
SUMMARY:
Monday, January 16, 2012
9 GAME FARMS IN WISCONSIN TEST POSITIVE FOR CWD
see full text and more here ;
Thursday, February 09, 2012
50 GAME FARMS IN USA INFECTED WITH CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE
Volume 18, Number 3—March 2012
Samuel E. Saunders1, Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt, and Jason C. Bartz
Author affiliations: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
(S.E. Saunders, S.L. Bartelt-Hunt); Creighton University, Omaha (J.C. Bartz)
Synopsis
Occurrence, Transmission, and Zoonotic Potential of Chronic Wasting Disease
snip...
CWD has been identified in free-ranging cervids in 15 US states and 2
Canadian provinces and in ≈100 captive herds in 15 states and provinces and in
South Korea (Figure 1, panel B).
snip...
Most epidemiologic studies and experimental work have suggested that the
potential for CWD transmission to humans is low, and such transmission has not
been documented through ongoing surveillance (2,3). In vitro prion replication
assays report a relatively low efficiency of CWD PrPSc-directed conversion of
human PrPc to PrPSc (30), and transgenic mice overexpressing human PrPc are
resistant to CWD infection (31); these findings indicate low zoonotic potential.
However, squirrel monkeys are susceptible to CWD by intracerebral and oral
inoculation (32). Cynomolgus macaques, which are evolutionarily closer to humans
than squirrel monkeys, are resistant to CWD infection (32). Regardless, the
finding that a primate is orally susceptible to CWD is of concern...
snip...
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Pennsylvania Confirms First Case CWD Adams County Captive Deer Tests
Positive
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
PENNSYLVANIA 2012 THE GREAT ESCAPE OF CWD
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
PENNSYLVANIA 2012 THE GREAT ESCAPE OF CWD INVESTIGATION MOVES INTO
LOUISIANA and INDIANA
Pennsylvania CWD number of deer exposed and farms there from much greater
than first thought
Published: Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 10:44 PM Updated: Wednesday,
October 17, 2012, 11:33 PM
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
PA Captive deer from CWD-positive farm roaming free
Friday, August 31, 2012
COMMITTEE ON CAPTIVE WILDLIFE AND ALTERNATIVE LIVESTOCK and CWD 2009-2012 a
review
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Captive Deer Breeding Legislation Overwhelmingly Defeated During 2012
Legislative Session
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
A Growing Threat How deer breeding could put public trust wildlife at risk
kind regards,
terry
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