The Conservation Federation of Missouri is Opposed to the Transfer of Captive White-tailed Deer Management
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The Conservation Federation of Missouri is Opposed to the Transfer of
Captive White-tailed Deer Management
Saturday, 05 April 2014 14:57 Last Updated on Saturday, 05 April 2014 14:58
Written by Rob Brandenburg
Legislation is currently working its way through the Missouri Senate
(SB964) and House of Representatives (HB2031) to change the classification of
captive cervids from "wildlife" to "livestock."
The legislation aims to transfer control of captive cervids from the
Department of Conservation to the Department of Agriculture. At legislative
hearings held for both bills, an official Department of Agriculture
representative testified in opposition of the transfer. The Department of
Agriculture believes MDC should manage whitetail deer. The Conservation
Federation of Missouri agrees.
CFM has assembled a Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) committee to help provide
direction on the complex issues surrounding the CWD outbreak in Missouri. The
CFM is working with state agencies, legislators, CFM members and the public to
educate them on CWD.
According to the Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance (a joint collaboration of
non-profit wildlife organizations), CWD is a contagious neurological disease
affecting deer, elk and moose. It causes a characteristic spongy degeneration of
the brains of infected animals resulting in emaciation, abnormal behavior, loss
of bodily functions and death.
One aspect of CWD management the CFM supports is increased regulatory
oversight of the captive cervid (deer) industry. CFM believes current operation
standards pose a significant risk to public wildlife resources. This calls for
stricter measures.
CWD remains prevalent in the national press. Just in the last week, the
Indianapolis Star released a groundbreaking report on the captive cervid
industry and the Boone & Crockett Club issued their position statement.
Ryan Sablow, an investigative journalist with the Indianapolis Star, spent
over a year researching captive cervid facilities. His report "Buck Fever" has
been picked up by many regional and national news outlets, and was even featured
by the USA Today.
Sablow wrote, "To feed the burgeoning captive-deer industry, breeders are
shipping an unprecedented number of deer and elk across state lines. With them
go the diseases they carry. Captive-deer facilities have spread tuberculosis to
cattle and are suspected in the spread of deadly foreign deer lice in the West.
More important, The Star's investigation uncovered compelling circumstantial
evidence that the industry also has helped accelerate the spread of chronic
wasting disease, an always-fatal deer disease similar to mad cow. CWD now has
been found in 22 states."
Click on this link to read and watch the entire "Buck Fever" feature:
www.indystar.com/buckfever
The Boone & Crockett Club is a national wildlife organization that
exists to improve the system of conservation throughout North America.
Conservation heroes, President Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell,
founded it in 1887. In regards to captive deer, the Boone & Crockett Club,
states:
"The Boone and Crockett Club supports state bans on importing or exporting
captive deer and elk by game farming operations in order to protect the health
of native populations. The Club opposes any legislation aimed at relaxing
regulations governing captive cervid breeding operations or removing management
authority over such operations from state wildlife agencies."
Read the Boone & Crockett Club's full position statement at
www.Boone-Crockett.org
The Conservation Federation of Missouri's CWD Committee firmly believes the
Missouri Department of Conservation must remain the agency responsible for the
regulation of all white-tailed deer in Missouri, both wild and captive. CFM also
believes MDC must strengthen regulation of the captive cervid industry.
For more information about captive cervids and CWD in Missouri, visit
www.NoMOcwd.org
Let your voice be heard. Contact your local legislators and tell them how
you feel about the transfer of captive cervids from the Missouri Department of
Conservation to the Missouri Department of Agriculture.
To find your Senator, visit www.senate.mo.gov
To find your Representative, visit www.house.mo.gov
Sunday, January 06, 2013
USDA TO PGC ONCE CAPTIVES ESCAPE
*** "it‘s no longer its business.” ***
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
Friday, April 04, 2014
*** Wisconsin State officials kept silent on CWD discovery at game farm
***
October 11, 2013
Protecting Missouri's White-Tailed Deer fill out the questionnaire ;
Friday, September 20, 2013
Missouri State records show gaps in oversight of captive deer farms,
ranches
Sunday, June 09, 2013
Missouri House forms 13-member Interim Committee on the Cause and Spread of
Chronic Wasting Disease CWD
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, 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
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...
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
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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
Wisconsin : 436 Deer Have Escaped From Farms to Wild
Date: March 18, 2003 Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Contacts: LEE BERGQUIST lbergquist@journalsentinel.com
State finds violations, lax record keeping at many sites, report says A
state inspection of private deer farms, prompted by the discovery of chronic
wasting disease, found that 436 white-tailed deer escaped into the wild,
officials said Tuesday
The Department of Natural Resources found that captive deer have escaped
from one-third of the state's 550 deer farms over the lifetime of the
operations. The agency also uncovered hundreds of violations and has sought a
total of 60 citations or charges against deer farm operators.
Hundreds of deer escape
The DNR found a total of 671 deer that escaped farms - 436 of which were
never found - because of storm-damaged fences, gates being left open or the
animals jumping over or through fences.
Thursday, October 03, 2013
*** TAHC ADOPTS CWD RULE THAT the amendments __REMOVE__ the requirement for
a specific fence height for captives ***
Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC)
October 3, 2013
News Release: November 4, 2011
Facebook: WV Commerce - State Parks
Hoy Murphy, Public Information Officer (304) 957-9365 hoy.r.murphy@wv.gov
Contact: Curtis Taylor, Wildlife Resources Section Chief 304-558-2771
DNR.Wildlife@wv.gov
Elk escape from captive cervid facility in Pennsylvania near West Virginia
border
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
(WVDNR) has confirmed with officials from the Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture (PDA) that at least two elk, including one adult bull and one cow,
have escaped from a captive cervid facility (deer and elk farms) in Greene
County, Pa. Greene County shares a common border with Marshall, Wetzel and
Monongalia counties in West Virginia. The elk escaped from a captive cervid
facility located approximately three miles from the West Virginia-Pennsylvania
border.
The PDA regulates captive cervid facilities in Pennsylvania. A
representative of the agency was unaware if the recent escaped elk were tagged.
The WVDNR regulates captive cervid facilities in West Virginia. In West
Virginia, all captive cervids in breeding facilities must be ear-tagged, and
there are currently no reported elk escapes from any facility in West Virginia.
A bull elk has been seen recently in Wetzel County, W.Va., according to
WVDNR officials. There have been no reports of cow elk sightings in either
Wetzel County, W.Va., or Greene County, Pa. No free-ranging wild elk live within
150 miles of Wetzel County. The elk sighted in Wetzel County is likely the
escaped animal from the captive facility in Pennsylvania.
Monday, June 11, 2012
*** OHIO Captive deer escapees and non-reporting ***
Friday, September 28, 2012
Stray elk renews concerns about deer farm security Minnesota
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
Iowa Third Deer Positive CWD at Davis County Hunting Preserve Captive
Shooting Pen
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
CWD Missouri remains confined to Linn-Macon-County Core Area with four new
cases
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
ILLINOIS CWD UPDATE NOVEMBER 2012
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Illinois DuPage county deer found with Chronic Wasting Disease CWD
Wednesday, September 04, 2013
*** cwd - cervid captive livestock escapes, loose and on the run in the
wild ***
Between 1996 and 2002, chronic wasting disease was diagnosed in 39 herds of
farmed elk in Saskatchewan in a single epidemic. All of these herds were
depopulated as part of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) disease
eradication program. Animals, primarily over 12 mo of age, were tested for the
presence CWD prions following euthanasia. Twenty-one of the herds were linked
through movements of live animals with latent CWD from a single infected source
herd in Saskatchewan, 17 through movements of animals from 7 of the secondarily
infected herds.
***The source herd is believed to have become infected via importation of
animals from a game farm in South Dakota where CWD was subsequently diagnosed
(7,4). A wide range in herd prevalence of CWD at the time of herd depopulation
of these herds was observed. Within-herd transmission was observed on some
farms, while the disease remained confined to the introduced animals on other
farms.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) outbreaks and surveillance program in the
Republic of Korea Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) outbreaks and surveillance
program in the Republic of Korea
Hyun-Joo Sohn, Yoon-Hee Lee, Min-jeong Kim, Eun-Im Yun, Hyo-Jin Kim,
Won-Yong Lee, Dong-Seob Tark, In- Soo Cho, Foreign Animal Disease Research
Division, National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service, Republic of Korea
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been recognized as an important prion
disease in native North America deer and Rocky mountain elks. The disease is a
unique member of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), which
naturally affects only a few species. CWD had been limited to USA and Canada
until 2000. On 28 December 2000, information from the Canadian government showed
that a total of 95 elk had been exported from farms with CWD to Korea. These
consisted of 23 elk in 1994 originating from the so-called “source farm” in
Canada, and 72 elk in 1997, which had been held in pre export quarantine at the
“source farm”.Based on export information of CWD suspected elk from Canada to
Korea, CWD surveillance program was initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture and
Forestry (MAF) in 2001. All elks imported in 1997 were traced back, however elks
imported in 1994 were impossible to identify. CWD control measures included
stamping out of all animals in the affected farm, and thorough cleaning and
disinfection of the premises. In addition, nationwide clinical surveillance of
Korean native cervids, and improved measures to ensure reporting of CWD suspect
cases were implemented. Total of 9 elks were found to be affected. CWD was
designated as a notifiable disease under the Act for Prevention of Livestock
Epidemics in 2002. Additional CWD cases - 12 elks and 2 elks - were diagnosed in
2004 and 2005. Since February of 2005, when slaughtered elks were found to be
positive, all slaughtered cervid for human consumption at abattoirs were
designated as target of the CWD surveillance program. Currently, CWD laboratory
testing is only conducted by National Reference Laboratory on CWD, which is the
Foreign Animal Disease Division (FADD) of National Veterinary Research and
Quarantine Service (NVRQS). In July 2010, one out of 3 elks from Farm 1 which
were slaughtered for the human consumption was confirmed as positive.
Consequently, all cervid – 54 elks, 41 Sika deer and 5 Albino deer – were culled
and one elk was found to be positive. Epidemiological investigations were
conducted by Veterinary Epidemiology Division (VED) of NVRQS in collaboration
with provincial veterinary services. Epidemiologically related farms were found
as 3 farms and all cervid at these farms were culled and subjected to CWD
diagnosis. Three elks and 5 crossbreeds (Red deer and Sika deer) were confirmed
as positive at farm 2. All cervids at Farm 3 and Farm 4 – 15 elks and 47 elks –
were culled and confirmed as negative. Further epidemiological investigations
showed that these CWD outbreaks were linked to the importation of elks from
Canada in 1994 based on circumstantial evidences. In December 2010, one elk was
confirmed as positive at Farm 5. Consequently, all cervid – 3 elks, 11
Manchurian Sika deer and 20 Sika deer – were culled and one Manchurian Sika deer
and seven Sika deer were found to be positive. This is the first report of CWD
in these sub-species of deer. Epidemiological investigations found that the
owner of the Farm 2 in CWD outbreaks in July 2010 had co-owned the Farm 5. In
addition, it was newly revealed that one positive elk was introduced from Farm 6
of Jinju-si Gyeongsang Namdo. All cervid – 19 elks, 15 crossbreed (species
unknown) and 64 Sika deer – of Farm 6 were culled, but all confirmed as
negative. : Corresponding author: Dr. Hyun-Joo Sohn (+82-31-467-1867, E-mail:
shonhj@korea.kr)
2011 Pre-congress Workshop: TSEs in animals and their environment 5
Friday, May 13, 2011
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) outbreaks and surveillance program in the
Republic of Korea
Monday, June 18, 2012
natural cases of CWD in eight Sika deer (Cervus nippon) and five Sika/red
deer crossbreeds captive Korea and Experimental oral transmission to red deer
(Cervus elaphus elaphus)
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Captive Deer Breeding Legislation Overwhelmingly Defeated During 2012
Legislative Session
Thursday, July 11, 2013
The New Hornographers: The Fight Over the Future of Texas Deer, Captive
shooting pens, and the CWD TSE prion disease
Tuesday, July 02, 2013
National Rifle Association and the Unified Sportsman of Florida support a
Florida ban on the importation of captive deer and cervids into Florida
Monday, October 07, 2013
The importance of localized culling in stabilizing chronic wasting disease
prevalence in white-tailed deer populations
Friday, March 07, 2014
37th Annual Southeast Deer Study Group Meeting in Athens, Georgia (CWD TSE
Prion abstracts)
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Potential role of soil properties in the spread of CWD in western Canada
Monday, March 03, 2014
*** APHIS to Offer Indemnity for CWD Positive Herds as Part of Its Cervid
Health Activities ???
Saturday, February 04, 2012
*** Wisconsin 16 age limit on testing dead deer Game Farm CWD Testing
Protocol Needs To Be Revised
Sunday, September 01, 2013
*** hunting over gut piles and CWD TSE prion disease
Saturday, March 29, 2014
*** Game Farm, CWD Concerns Rise at Boone and Crockett Club ***
Therefore, it is considered that farmed and park deer may have a higher
probability of exposure to CWD transferred to the environment than wild deer
given the restricted habitat range and higher frequency of contact with tourists
and returning GB residents.
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Singeltary submission ;
Program Standards: Chronic Wasting Disease Herd Certification Program and
Interstate Movement of Farmed or Captive Deer, Elk, and Moose
*** DOCUMENT ID: APHIS-2006-0118-0411
examples as follows ;
OLD HISTORY ON CWD AND GAME FARMS IN USA
There are now at least 5 known captive research facilities and at least 3
zoos and 5 game farms involved in CWD, all traceable if you want to shipments of
animals out of Ft. Collins. These are:
1. Sybille Wildlife Research and Education Center, Visitor Center and
Wildlife Viewing Sites - on Hwy. 34, about 28 miles SW from I25 exit south of
Wheatland State of Wyoming - Game and Fish Department - Sybille Visitor Center
2362 Highway 34 Wheatland State WY 82201 Phone 307-322-2784 from 4
2. Kremmling. Colorado State University - Cooperative Extension - Grand
County PO. Box 475 Kremmling State CO 80459 Phone 303-724-3436 from 1
3. Meeker. Colorado State University - Cooperative Extension - Rio Blanco
County 779 Sulphur Creek Road, Box 270 City Meeker CO 81641 Phone 303-878-4093
from 1
4. Main Ft. Collins facility. State of Colorado - Division of Wildlife -
Wildlife Research Center State of Colorado - Division of Wildlife - Wildlife
Research Center 317 West Prospect City Fort Collins CO 80526 Phone 970-484-2836
5. Wild Animal Disease Center, CSU, Ft. Collins exchanging cervids with 4
6. Denver zoo receiving mule deer from 4
7. Toronto zoo receiving mule deer from 4
8. Wyoming zoo receiving mule deer from 1
9. South Dakota game farm receiving calf elk from 1 or 4 [?]
10. Regina, Saskatchewan game farm receiving South Dakota elk, 27 April,
1996 confirmation. from 9
11. 12 cases of CWD reported now from S. Dakota, at least 2 different
herds, seemingly 3-4 game farms, from 1 and 4.
Inactivation of the TSE Prion disease
Chronic Wasting Disease CWD, and other TSE prion disease, these TSE prions
know no borders.
these TSE prions know no age restrictions.
The TSE prion disease survives ashing to 600 degrees celsius, that’s around
1112 degrees farenheit.
you cannot cook the TSE prion disease out of meat.
you can take the ash and mix it with saline and inject that ash into a
mouse, and the mouse will go down with TSE.
Prion Infected Meat-and-Bone Meal Is Still Infectious after Biodiesel
Production as well.
the TSE prion agent also survives Simulated Wastewater Treatment Processes.
IN fact, you should also know that the TSE Prion agent will survive in the
environment for years, if not decades.
you can bury it and it will not go away.
The TSE agent is capable of infected your water table i.e. Detection of
protease-resistant cervid prion protein in water from a CWD-endemic area.
it’s not your ordinary pathogen you can just cook it out and be done with.
that’s what’s so worrisome about Iatrogenic mode of transmission, a simple
autoclave will not kill this TSE prion agent.
Sunday, March 30, 2014
*** Chronic Wasting Disease Agents in Nonhuman Primates ***
*** our results raise the possibility that CJD cases classified as VV1 may
include cases caused by iatrogenic transmission of sCJD-MM1 prions or food-borne
infection by type 1 prions from animals, e.g., chronic wasting disease prions in
cervid. In fact, two CJD-VV1 patients who hunted deer or consumed venison have
been reported (40, 41). The results of the present study emphasize the need for
traceback studies and careful re-examination of the biochemical properties of
sCJD-VV1 prions. ***
Thursday, January 2, 2014
*** CWD TSE Prion in cervids to hTGmice, Heidenhain Variant
Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease MM1 genotype, and iatrogenic CJD ??? ***
Sunday, March 30, 2014
*** Chronic Wasting Disease Agents in Nonhuman Primates ***
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