Wildlife Council Meeting: 9/17 @ 4:30P - District 4 HQs

[Boarhead]

Not EHD but did anybody else get this CWD email that hunts any of these counties?

 

[SNIPERBBB]

But mud exists around every source of water I've ever been around. Full of water and there is still mud around the edge, 2 weeks since the last rain and the pond level drops only a a few inches there's mud. Rocky creeks, theirs always areas where sediment piled up, mud. How about after a big rainfall event and there's puddles and low lying areas with stagnant water, as it dries up mud. How about low swampy areas that are always wet, mud abounds. That patch f trees in a field where the farmer has never planted because it's always wet, mud. We've got mud everywhere around here in the south, how do we still have deer and not massive EHD outbreaks? We have a 10,000 acre WMA that if it's not water, it's mud. There's no such thing as dry ground in that swamp. I'm just thinking there has to be more to it than mud.

There's other factors that come into play , especially timing. This year happened to be very wet around prime time for the midge's breeding season then the drought hit at the right time to drive deer to water.

 

[SNIPERBBB]

Just reading a study that that suggests that with our warmer weather the deer that survived EHD and still infected, the new adult midges that popup can continue the cycle of transmission by biting infected deer and keep spreading it. It appears the virus doesn't directly pass from adult midges to the offspring midges

 

[giles]

This is why I tuned into the part of that video where they said cows always had some sort of tick born disease along with EHD. Id like to see more research in that area. Like fighting cancer and dying from pneumonia.

 

[Jackalope]

Not EHD but did anybody else get this CWD email that hunts any of these counties?View attachment 212373

This is just me. But I wouldn't tell them shit on CWD. It's not going to change a single thing except make your life hunting that area a living hell. Everyone knows by now that EHD is spread to areas due to deer farms moving deer in and out. They spout all this crap about testing etc but I remember reading a study a few years ago where in cases where they could track the origins in a new area it always came back to a deer farm. This is because tests aren't very accurate and the disease can be infectious but dormant in an animal. There is also a MASSIVE benifit to deer farms not reporting illnesses or the state will likely shutdown their entire opration and kill off all the animals. The DOW can't do crap about the deer farms because they're governed under the Dept of Ag and Ag rules Ohio. Talk to anyone that's had to hunt in CWD areas, it's nothing but a big pain in the ass that amounts to little more than virtue signaling. They aren't going to stop it once it's in the wild no matter how many silly rules they make, and they aren't taking the steps that will stop it like banning the movement of farm deer.

 

[Wiley E Coyote]

interesting how 2023 had no reported cases

 

[Wiley E Coyote]

I remember the 23-24 season being the toughest I've probably ever had. Many sets without seeing a single deer.

 

[gjs4]

I remember the 23-24 season being the toughest I've probably ever had. Many sets without seeing a single deer.

Just curious- were you in an area where the DNR said there were a bunch (2-3deer co or some other means of knowing)?

 

[Wiley E Coyote]

Just curious- were you in an area where the DNR said there were a bunch (2-3deer co or some other means of knowing)?

They had it as a mild hit there. Actually I meant to say the 2022 season was the tuff one! Hunted several days without a deer spotted. In 2023 I had a decent season with a lot of sightings but all two year old deer. Two year old bucks everywhere passed up so many. That same area in 2024 had very few bucks on hit. Lord knows what happened to them. Now here we are in 2025 and EHD in the same area and I haven't had one buck on camera there since the first week of August.