Being from Wisconsin, I'm actually extremely familiar with CWD. It's most common in the southwestern portion of the state and I hunt in a county where it's extremely common actually. When it first emerged, the DNR tried to issue practically unlimited CWD tags....meaning you could shoot as many as three deer in a day, and turn around and shoot three more deer the next.
Here's something important to remember however.....there has not been ONE single diagnosed case in a human. Statistically speaking, thousands of people have eaten CWD infected meat as well. When you get venison turned into sausage (which a majority of people do), the meat processor isn't doing individual batch processing unless you specify it. So, your trim is dumped into the mixing vat with the rest of the venison from other people's meat. Meaning there is a HIGH likelyhood that I myself have eaten CWD meat.
Personally, I don't worry too much about it and I feel the DNR worries too much about it as well. White tails have an INCREDIBLY high rate of reproduction with a far majority of doe having a fawn every year. CWD hasn't affected population growth AT ALL....it's quite the opposite in the southern half of the state. Deer numbers remain and continue to grow, which is why the DNR issues a TON of tags and adds specialty hunts to reduce the numbers. They literally don't have enough hunters to thin the numbers.
It's not a question of left vs right, government or no government......but a LOT of people in the state believe that there is a collaboration between the state and auto insurance companies to reduce herd numbers (via overhyping CWD). Deer collisions cost them a ton of money each year. I'm not sure if I believe it, but I'm just putting it out there. Don't know how this turned into a thread about union labor and corporate greed though lol.....
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