Indiana Hunting preserves Sen. Carlin Yoder Senate Bill 404 and Rep. William Friend House Bill 1154 DEAD IN THE WATER ?
Indiana Hunting preserves Sen. Carlin Yoder Senate Bill 404 and Rep.
William Friend House Bill 1154 DEAD IN THE WATER ?
Indiana Hunting preserves Sen. Carlin Yoder Senate Bill 404 and Rep.
William Friend House Bill 1154 and the increased risk factors for the potential
introduction of the CWD TSE prion disease
DEFEATED AND DEAD IN THE WATER NO THANKS TO THE FOLKS BELOW.
Sen. Carlin Yoder, R-Middlebury s12@iga.in.gov; to
introduce legislation that would legalize the hunting of farm-raised deer and
elk
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Engrossed Senate Bill (S) 3 Authored by: Sen. Carlin Yoder Sen. James Banks
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Yoder Sen. Carlin Yoder Sen. Carlin Yoder Author
Sen. James Banks Sen. James Banks Sen. James Banks Author
DIGEST Hunting preserves. Provides for the licensing and operation of
hunting preserves on which farm raised and released cervidae are hunted.
Establishes licensing requirements, inspection requirements, and fees. Exempts
licensed hunting preserves from the licensing requirements for game breeders and
shooting preserves. Provides that hunters on hunting preserves are not required
to have a hunting license and are not subject to bag limits. Requires that a
transportation tag be purchased and fixed to the leg of each cervidae taken on a
hunting preserve. Prohibits computer assisted remote hunting on hunting
preserves. Provides that the law under which the county is liable for losses
sustained by the owners of certain types of animals that are killed or maimed by
dogs does not apply to farm raised cervidae on a hunting preserve. Provides that
an owner of a hunting preserve is not entitled to indemnification from the state
for cervidae that are condemned by the board of animal health or destroyed
because of exposure to bovine tuberculosis. Removes a provision requiring the
boundaries of a shooting preserve to be defined by fences of at least one strand
of wire.
A related high-fence hunting bill has been introduced in the House by Rep.
Bill Friend, R-Macy h23@iga.in.gov;
Friend’s bill would allow only 10 preserves to operate in Indiana with a
permit from the state. They would be regulated and inspected by agricultural and
wildlife officials.
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William Friend Rep. William Friend Author
Rep. Matthew Ubelhor Rep. Matthew Ubelhor Rep. Matthew Ubelhor
Co-Author
Rep. David Wolkins Rep. David Wolkins Rep. David Wolkins Co-Author
Rep. Mark Messmer Rep. Mark Messmer Rep. Mark Messmer Co-Author
DIGEST Game preserves. Provides for the licensing and operation of game
preserves in which privately owned cervidae and game birds may be hunted.
Provides for the maximum sale of 10 licenses to operate game preserves. Requires
game preserve owners: (1) to pay a yearly license renewal fee; and (2) to
provide annually a free program at the game preserve's facilities that promotes
hunter safety or develops new hunters who are either less than 18 years of age
or disabled. Provides that the owner of a game preserve is not required to
possess a game breeder's license or shooting preserve license. Restricts the
sale and transfer of ownership of an ownership interest in a game preserve.
Establishes requirements for the operation of game preserves. Provides for the
inspection of game preserves by the department of natural resources and the
state board of animal health. Establishes record keeping requirements. Requires
game preserve license fees to be deposited into a hunter safety education fund.
Establishes the hunter safety education fund.
> Yes SB404 is defeated and HB 1154 was never heard and is dead.
> By the way Senator Long voted to defeat this bill and our own Senator
Mike Crider cast the deciding vote. We only won by one vote.
Indiana Wildlife Federation
> The vote was 25 "for" and 23 "against" so there was not a
constitutional majority of 26 minimum. Therefore it was not passed by the
Senate. We expect the bill to be dead for this year. Technically a canned
hunting amendment could be put on a house bill and we are watching for that but
we don't expect that to happen.
vote, vote, vote, em out. hunters = votes. bbbut, you must get the sound
science to the hunters, and, to the legislators, because, I am not so sure if
all the legislators really know the history of game farms, or the science of cwd
tse prion disease. the lobbyist do, and they don't care. with the shooting pens
mostly writing, complaining, sending them prehistoric junk science, and the
hunters sitting back and watching the tide roll in and out, the lobbyist and the
shooting pens will win, in the end. they can bring this up, as much as they
want. one bill fails, another one is brought forth. VOTES, VOTES, VOTES, right,
left, or whatever, that's all that counts. never let your guard down, and keep
your powder dry. ...kind regards, terry
see the vote here, who voted for, and who voted against, and we should all write the ones that voted this down, thank them, and for the ones that voted for the shooting pens and lost, this time, well, you can vote them OUT next time around. ...
http://www.indianawildlife.org/lib/uploads/files/pdfs/SB404_Roll_Call_Vote_Record_2-4-14.pdf
UPDATE !
 posted
February 06, 2014 05:30 PM
Like a zombie IT"S BAAAACK!!!!! Dear IWF Members, We spoke too soon--The canned Hunting bill (SB404) that did not pass out of the Senate earlier this week may not be dead! It's our understanding that the language to legalize canned hunting will be amended into SB52 Criminal plenalties and DNR. SB52 was approved by the Senate and is now in the House. See the attached Roll Call Vote from 2013 to learn how your State Representative voted on canned hunting last year. It was a close vote but the House did approve canned hunting. This year we have an opportunity to educate our State Representatives and let them know Hoosiers do not support canned hunting. Canned hunting threatens wildlife health, is not fair chase ethical hunting, and threatens Indiana's $314 million wild deer hunting economy. Please contact your Representative and ask them to vote NO on canned hunting if amended into SB52 or any other bill. Find your legislator here. Canned hunting was stopped in the Senate--Now let's stop it in the House! Thanks for all you are doing for wildlife and hunting ethics. -------------------- There's a reason I like dogs better'n people... . |
Monday, February 3, 2014
Evaluation of the zoonotic potential of transmissible mink encephalopathy
TSE Prion disease
Research Project: TRANSMISSION, DIFFERENTIATION, AND PATHOBIOLOGY OF
TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHIES
pens, pens, PENS ???
*** Spraker suggested an interesting explanation for the occurrence of CWD.
The deer pens at the Foot Hills Campus were built some 30-40 years ago by a Dr.
Bob Davis. At or abut that time, allegedly, some scrapie work was conducted at
this site. When deer were introduced to the pens they occupied ground that had
previously been occupied by sheep. ...
also, see where even decades back, the USDA had the same thought as they do
today with CWD, not their problem...see page 27 below as well, where USDA stated
back then, the same thing they stated in the state of Pennsylvania, not their
damn business, once they escape, and they said the same thing about CWD in
general back then ;
”The occurrence of CWD must be viewed against the contest of the locations
in which it occurred. It was an incidental and unwelcome complication of the
respective wildlife research programmes. Despite it’s subsequent recognition as
a new disease of cervids, therefore justifying direct investigation, no specific
research funding was forthcoming. The USDA veiwed it as a wildlife problem and
consequently not their province!” ...page 26.
”The occurrence of CWD must be viewed against the contest of the locations
in which it occurred. It was an incidental and unwelcome complication of the
respective wildlife research programmes. Despite it’s subsequent recognition as
a new disease of cervids, therefore justifying direct investigation, no specific
research funding was forthcoming. The USDA veiwed it as a wildlife problem and
consequently not their province!” ...page 26.
sound familiar $$$
Sunday, January 06, 2013
USDA TO PGC ONCE CAPTIVES ESCAPE
*** "it‘s no longer its business.”
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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Saturday, February 04, 2012
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Saturday, February 04, 2012
*** Wisconsin 16 age limit on testing dead deer Game Farm CWD Testing Protocol Needs To Be Revised
Wednesday, September 04, 2013
***cwd - cervid captive livestock escapes, loose and on the run in the
wild...
Saturday, June 29, 2013
PENNSYLVANIA CAPTIVE CWD INDEX HERD MATE YELLOW *47 STILL RUNNING LOOSE IN
INDIANA, YELLOW NUMBER 2 STILL MISSING, AND OTHERS ON THE RUN STILL IN LOUISIANA
Monday, June 24, 2013
The Effects of Chronic Wasting Disease on the Pennsylvania Cervid Industry
Following its Discovery
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
CWD GONE WILD, More cervid escapees from more shooting pens on the loose in
Pennsylvania
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Chronic Wasting Disease CWD quarantine Louisiana via CWD index herd
Pennsylvania Update May 28, 2013
6 doe from Pennsylvania CWD index herd still on the loose in Louisiana,
quarantine began on October 18, 2012, still ongoing, Lake Charles premises.
Monday, December 02, 2013
WISCONSIN CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CWD DISCOVERED MARATHON COUNTY HUNTING
PRESERVE
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Wisconsin Second CWD positive deer found in Grant County
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
IOWA DNR EMERGENCY CONSENT ORDER IN THE MATTER OF TOM & LINDA BRAKKE
D/B/A PINE RIDGE HUNTING LODGE UPDATE AUGUST 21, 2013
snip...
5. On July 16, 2012, DNR received a notice from the Texas Veterinary
Medical Diagnostic Lab ("Texas Vet Lab”) that a sample from an adult male deer
killed at Pine Ridge tested presumptively positive for CWD. (DNR has an
agreement with the Texas Vet Lab to run these preliminary tests.) Because the
Texas Vet Lab found this presumptive positive result, protocols required the
sample to be sent to the National Veterinary Services Laboratory ("National
Lab”) in Ames, Iowa for final confirmation. On July 18, 2012, the National Lab
confirmed the positive CWD result in the deer.
6. On July 19, 2012, DNR notified the Brakkes of the positive test by
phone. Mr. Brakke was out of state.
snip...
12. The Brakkes depopulated the Hunting Preserve, as specified in the
Agreement, from September 10, 2012 to January 31, 2013. As part of this effort,
the Brakkes, the staff and their customers killed 199 captive deer and nine
captive elk. The DNR obtained 170 CWD samples. (Samples were not taken from
fawns and one adult female who was killed in a manner that made sampling
impossible.) Of these 199 deer, two additional adult male deer tested positive
for CWD. Information provided by the Brakkes confirmed that these two additional
deer originated from the Brakke Breeding Facility.
13. DNR installed, with the Brakke's permission, an interior electric fence
on October 1 and 2, 2012.
14. The Brakkes cleaned and disinfected, under DNR supervision, the feeders
and ground surrounding the feeders on April 5, 2013.
15. On April 26, 2013, the Brakkes hand-delivered a notice to the DNR’s
Chief of Law Enforcement Bureau, notifying the DNR that they would no longer
operate a hunting preserve on the Quarantined Premises. The Brakkes did not
reveal any plans to remove the fence around the Quarantined Premises or to
remove the gates to and from the Quarantined Premises in this April 26, 2013
letter.
16. On June 3, 2013, DNR became aware that sections of the exterior fence
surrounding the Quarantined Premises had been removed and that some, if not all,
of the exterior gates to and from the Quarantined Premises were open.
17. On June 4, 2013, DNR received reports from the public in the area that
four wild deer were observed inside the Quarantined Premises.
18. On June 5, 2013, DNR conducted a fence inspection, after gaining
approval from surrounding landowners, and confirmed that the fenced had been cut
or removed in at least four separate locations; that the fence had degraded and
was failing to maintain the enclosure around the Quarantined Premises in at
least one area; that at least three gates had been opened; and that deer tracks
were visible in and around one of the open areas in the sand on both sides of
the fence, evidencing movement of deer into the Quarantined Premises.
IV. CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
snip...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 IOWA DNR EMERGENCY CONSENT ORDER IN THE MATTER
OF TOM & LINDA BRAKKE D/B/A PINE RIDGE HUNTING LODGE UPDATE AUGUST 21, 2013
Thursday, October 03, 2013
TAHC ADOPTS CWD RULE THAT the amendments REMOVE the requirement for a
specific fence height for captives
October 3, 2013
OLD HISTORY ON CWD AND GAME FARMS IN USA
14 YEARS AGO
THE YEAR 2000
Stop the madness: CWD threatens Wisconsin's elk, deer and, ultimately,
people.
15 July 00
The Isthmus magazine By BRIAN McCOMBIE
Imagine a disease worse than AIDS rippling through Wisconsin's deer herd.
One that's always fatal, cannot be tested for in live animals, and has the
chance of spreading to anyone who eats the infected venison. Sound like the
premise for Michael Crichton's next apocalyptic thriller?
Unfortunately, such a disease already exists in epidemic levels in the
wilds of Colorado and Wyoming. It's infected some game farms, too, and Wisconsin
game farmers have imported more than 350 elk with the potential for this
disease, including elk from farms known to be infected.
"If most people knew what kind of risk this disease poses to free-ranging
deer in the state, they'd be very concerned," says Dr. Sarah Hurley, Lands
Division administrator for the Department of Natural Resources. The DNR is now
testing free-ranging deer around these game farms for the disease: "We're
focusing our energies on those areas where we think there's the greatest
possibility of transmission."
The malady the DNR's looking for is chronic wasting disease (CWD)--better
known, to the extent it is known at all, as mad elk disease. It's a form of the
mad cow disease that devastated Britain's cattle industry in the 1980s, scared
the bejesus out of the populace, and is believed to have killed at least 70
people to date. An elk or deer with CWD can be listless, may walk in circles,
will lose weight and interact progressively less with fellow animals.
The corresponding human affliction is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
(pronounced Croytz-feld Yawkob) or CJD. People with CJD experience symptoms
similar to Alzheimer's, including memory loss and depression, followed by
rapidly progressive dementia and death, usually within one year. While CJD is
rare (literally one in a million odds of getting it), over the last few years at
least three deer hunters have died of it. There is no proof either way whether
they contracted the disease from CWD-infected venison, but new research says it
is possible.
All three varieties--mad cow, mad elk and CJD--belong to a family of
diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. These diseases alter
the conformation of proteins in the brain called prions; after-death brain
samples usually show a series of microscopic holes in and around brain cells.
No one is exactly sure how mad elk disease spreads. At first, transmittal
through blood seemed likely, as from mother to fawn. But CWD has moved between
adult animals at game farms, leading scientists to conclude that it can be
spread through saliva or simple contact. Also, the rates of transmission are
higher in areas where animals have the most opportunities for contact.
Wisconsin's concentrated population of 1.7 million deer interact freely with
each other, and scientific modeling suggests CWD could tear through our deer
herd devastatingly fast. Despite the danger, Wisconsin and other states are
relying on only sporadic testing and a system of voluntary compliance. It's a
system that some say has more holes in it than a CWD-infected brain.
At present, Wisconsin game farm owners, even those harboring elk and deer
brought in from farms with known cases of CWD, do not have to call a
veterinarian if a deer or elk suddenly dies or acts strange. They're also not
required to inform the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) or the
Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) if animals
escape into the wild.
"The lax attitude is pretty shocking," says John Stauber, a Madison
activist and co-author of Mad Cow U.S.A. To protect people and deer, Stauber
argues for an immediate importation ban for game farms, plus programs of testing
and surveillance. He suggests both DATCP and DNR aren't taking such measures
because, as the regulators in charge, they don't want to find the CWD he thinks
is likely already in state. "It's in their bureaucratic interest to not
[actively] look for CWD in the game farms," says Stauber. "Because if they find
it, who's to blame?"
In the wild and especially out west, chronic wasting disease is spreading
fast. Northeastern Colorado documented its first case in 1981. By the mid-1990s,
samplings of mule deer brains showed 3% to 4% testing positive for CWD. Within a
few years, the rate was 8%, and now Larimer County, the center of the endemic
area, has a 15% rate of infection among mule deer. It's also being found in deer
and elk in Wyoming.
"Fifteen percent of a wild population of animals with this disease is
staggering," says Dr. Thomas Pringle, who tracks CWD-type diseases for the
Sperling Biomedical Foundation in Eugene, Ore. "It's basically unheard of. This
appears to be an unusually virulent strain. with highly efficient horizontal
transmission mechanisms."
CWD could eventually spread to Wisconsin on its own, animal to animal. But
that would take decades. Game farms, though, provide a mechanism to cut through
all that time and distance and drop CWD smack in the middle of the state.
An open-records search by Isthmus reveals that the first shipment of farm
elk from areas with CWD in the wild occurred in 1992, with 66 Colorado elk going
to a game farm in Plymouth. In April 1998, DATCP was informed that a Bloomer
game farm had purchased one elk from a Nebraska farm later found to be
CWD-infected. This prompted a Sept. 15, 1998, memo from Steven Miller, head of
the DNR's Lands Division, to Secretary George Meyer, with copies to DATCP chief
Ben Brancel and Gov. Tommy Thompson. In it, Miller recommends that Wisconsin
follow the lead of Montana (which found CWD on two game farms) and place "a
moratorium on the importation of all game farm animals.... At present it appears
the only way to help assure the disease does not spread into Wisconsin."
But the moratorium was never put in place, so it's possible that even more
elk potentially carrying CWD are now in state.
Instead of a moratorium, Wisconsin has opted for testing. It is among 12
states and two Canadian provinces that currently test deer for CWD. Last year,
the Wisconsin DNR began testing road- and hunter-killed deer in 1999 within a
five-mile radius of game farms that have brought in elk from CWD-infected areas.
Test areas include all or part of Fond du Lac, Dodge, Jefferson, Sheboygan and
Washington counties. All of the approximately 250 brains examined in 1999 came
back negative; this year, 500 to 600 deer will be tested.
Meanwhile, DATCP is asking owners of game farms that have animals from
herds known to have cases of CWD infection to voluntarily enter a surveillance
program. The agency's top veterinarian, Dr. Clarence Siroky, argues that
voluntary compliance makes more sense than a moratorium because, ban or no ban,
game farm operators "are going to find a way to bring these animals into the
state. We don't have police patrols and impregnable borders to keep anything in
or out."
With voluntary compliance, Siroky says, at least there are records of
animals entering the state. So if CWD or other diseases are discovered, the
animals can be traced back to their original herds and other farms they may have
been at. "It's better to know where the animals are coming in from," he insists.
Siroky may be right that an importation ban would result in some game farms
smuggling in animals. But currently, game farmers can bring in any deer or elk,
even those from known CWD-infected areas, so long as they can produce a health
certificate showing the animal's been tested. The problem is that no test exists
to find CWD in live animals. Animals can carry CWD for years and still look
healthy, so some of the 370 elk shipped into Wisconsin between 1996 and 1999
from CWD areas could have the disease. The odds are even higher for animals
purchased from farms later found to have CWD.
Wisconsin has approximately 100 deer or elk farms and they're big business.
On the Internet, prices for elk calves start at $1,500, and breeding bulls go
for up to $20,000. Some farms sell venison and the velvet that peels from new
elk antlers (considered an aphrodisiac in Asia). Others offer "hunts" costing
between $1,000 and $5,000 for trophy deer, to more than $10,000 for bull elk
with massive antlers.
Given these economics, it's reasonable to question why anyone with a
suspicion of CWD in his or her herd would call in state regulators or a vet. A
farm with a proven CWD case, confirms Dr. Robert Ehlenfeldt, DATCP's director of
Animal Disease Control, would be shut down indefinitely.
And if a problem develops on a Wisconsin game farm, there's no guarantee
that's where it will stay. Dr. Hurley says even fenced-in animals have easy
nose-to-nose contact with wild and other farmed animals. Besides, as the DNR's
chief of special operations Thomas Solin has documented, many game farms are not
secure. Gates are sometimes left open. Fences rust and break, rot and topple,
get crushed by fallen trees. Even if game farm animals don't escape, such
breaches allow wild deer to get in, mingle with the farmed deer and elk, then
leave.
Unlike other diseases, there's no test for CWD in living animals because it
doesn't create an immune system counter-response, detectable through blood
analysis. You can't kill CWD and related diseases by cooking the meat. One test
Stauber recounts in Mad Cow U.S.A. found that scrapie, a sheep form of CWD,
stayed viable after a full hour at 680 degrees Fahrenheit. Most disinfectants
don't kill these diseases, either, and they can exist in the soil for years.
And while diseases like mad cow and mad elk do have some trouble jumping
from species to species, it can happen. This May, Byron Caughey of the National
Institutes of Health announced that he had converted human brain materials with
mad-elk-contaminated brain matter at rates roughly equal to the transfer between
mad cow and humans.
Says Dr. Pringle, referring to Caughey's work, "CWD may not transmit that
easily, but the rate isn't zero." Pringle notes that the test Caughey used has
been a very reliable proxy in the past in determining transmission possibilities
for other diseases, including mad cow.
Once they jump the species barrier, transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
diseases adapt to fit the new host and are then passed on rather easily within
that species. Unfortunately, says Pringle, no one is trying to determine if CWD
has jumped into people as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Making matters more
difficult is the fact that the disease can incubate for decades before symptoms
are seen.
In states with CWD-infected deer, thousands of people have undoubtedly been
exposed to CWD-infected venison. A February 1998 Denver Post article tells of
one hunter who's venison tested positive for CWD. By the time he was notified,
his meat had already been ground up and mixed with meat from hundreds of other
deer for venison sausage.
With AIDS, Pringle notes, there was a definite overreaction, with people
initially afraid to even shake hands with people infected with the virus.
Looking at the CWD situation in Colorado, he says there's been complete
underreaction. "It's like, oh, what the hell. Nobody's died yet--so keep eating
the venison!'" Pringle worries that if the disease is found in humans, it will
be so only after years of spreading through the human community.
Looking over documents obtained by Isthmus through its open-records
request, Stauber says DATCP is behaving more like a lobbyist for the game farm
industry than an agency bent on protecting Wisconsin's people from CWD. He
points to DATCP's Cervidae Advisory Committee as a prime example. In a Nov. 11,
1998, memo from Siroky to DATCP secretary Ben Brancel, Siroky notes that the
committee is needed to "obtain information from the public concerning disease
regulation" of farmed deer and elk, and "to help formulate action plans for
importation requirements, prevention and control" of CWD. But of the 12 people
Siroky nominates, one's a DNR warden, one's a DATCP employee, and the other 10
are game farm owners. And two of these owners were among those DATCP knew had
purchased elk from farms at high risk of having CWD.
"There's no significant input from anyone else," says Stauber. "Farmers,
deer hunters and consumers are all left out. Meanwhile, the government's failing
to take all necessary precautions to alert the public to this potential health
threat."
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Long folds, Money to great, Indiana high-fence hunting bill may advance,
along with CWD
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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