Collected Quotes
Death and Deer Herds
March 2, 2003
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Killing as many as 25,000 deer in a 361-square mile eradication zone in Dane, Iowa and Sauk Counties. Banning feeding and baiting throughout the state.
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Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources proposals to control Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) (June 23, 2002)
[I have] problems with the statewide feeding ban. Our herd up here north of Highway 64 is artificially big. We sustain it by feeding it. If we just cut that out, it would starve itself.
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Natural Resources Board member Stephen Willet (June 23, 2002).
What does he think an epidemic will do?
Some say this is just another example of the barstool biology that has plagued Wisconsin deer management since the 1930's.
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Pat Durkin, Wisconsin State Journal (June 23, 2002)
Each fall nearly 700,000 deer hunters take to the woods in Wisconsin. Wisconsin's hunting industry could lose as much as $96 million if deer hunters afraid of chronic wasting disease stay home this fall.
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Associated Press (July 15, 2002)
Fight CWD. Hunt Deer.
Billboard between Cross Plains and Madison, Wisconsin (November 6, 2002)
We should be allowing spotlights, machine guns, whatever it takes.
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State Senator Bob Welch (November 7, 2002)
In Wisconsin, deer license sales dropped about 10 percent last year for gun-hunting and about 13 percent for bowhunting.
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Pat Durkin, Wisconsin State Journal (March 2, 2003)
We know enough about transmissible diseases to realize we must not artificially concentrate wildlife. That's why states can't allow baiting and feeding.
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Randy Davidson, wildlife disease researcher at the University of Georgia (March 2, 2003)
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