Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Citizen Letter to Wisconsin Ag Dept Director & State Veterinarian
Just received a copy of a letter sent by the President of Voices of Wisconsin to Dept of Ag on the CWD situation. Click here to download the entire letter.
An excerpt: "We are all aware of the fast approaching $20,000,000 dollars that the WDNR has spent on the past two year’s eradication attempts. They have proved that the incidence rate of CWD (even in a dense deer population as the eradication zone) is consistent with the world-wide incidence rate of less than 2%, in fact our number here in Wisconsin is less than 1% incidence. Other than that, the WDNR have not shown the public a single thing learned."
vowletter.doc
An excerpt: "We are all aware of the fast approaching $20,000,000 dollars that the WDNR has spent on the past two year’s eradication attempts. They have proved that the incidence rate of CWD (even in a dense deer population as the eradication zone) is consistent with the world-wide incidence rate of less than 2%, in fact our number here in Wisconsin is less than 1% incidence. Other than that, the WDNR have not shown the public a single thing learned."
vowletter.doc
Monday, February 09, 2004
No News is Not Good News
Jim W from Colorado writes that we ought not applaud how the Wildlife bureaucracy in his state is handling CWD testing:
“My friend Bill . . . shot a deer near the Wyoming border. I helped Bill collect the RP lymph nodes for testing. We took the samples to the CDOW offices at Fort Collins. After 3-1/2 weeks, the CDOW website still showed the results as ‘PENDING’. Only after calling the CDOW's wildlife disease coordinator in Denver and complaining about the delay did Bill finally get his results: Positive. We were later told by the CDOW that positive results are never posted to their website”
As in Wisconsin, the agency wants plenty of time to massage the data before releasing positive results!!
“My friend Bill . . . shot a deer near the Wyoming border. I helped Bill collect the RP lymph nodes for testing. We took the samples to the CDOW offices at Fort Collins. After 3-1/2 weeks, the CDOW website still showed the results as ‘PENDING’. Only after calling the CDOW's wildlife disease coordinator in Denver and complaining about the delay did Bill finally get his results: Positive. We were later told by the CDOW that positive results are never posted to their website”
As in Wisconsin, the agency wants plenty of time to massage the data before releasing positive results!!
