.....this hot dry summer doesn't cause another EHD outbreak again! I don't think Ohio would/could recover but the insurance companies would be happy I bet! If we don't get rain soon I'm very concerned EHD will rear it ugly head again!
.....this hot dry summer doesn't cause another EHD outbreak again! I don't think Ohio would/could recover but the insurance companies would be happy I bet! If we don't get rain soon I'm very concerned EHD will rear it ugly head again!
I'm not worried. Heck, we still have 700k of the dang things, and they breed like rats. We are over-ran with deer, we could really use a kill off from Mother Nature. Lord knows, hunters don't put forth the effort they once did to kill them!
There's an informative article in the August issue of NAW about EHD and Blue Tongue.
According to James Kroll, "One answer to reducing the impacts of these diseases is proper herd management." "That means hunters need to harvest more does, an activity still not popular with hunters." Dr. Deer concludes with, "The best approach is to manage our deer in balance with their habitat, paying careful attention to population density on our hunting lands."