Chronic Wasting Disease

This letter from the Steven Point, WI, Journal accuses Stan Hall of knowingly spreading CWD in central Wisco (tmElka). Here's another Milwaukee JournalSentinel article about this glorious Cheney way of hunting. Note the distinction that is made between "hunting" & "shooting".

I wonder if Mr. Goff still thinks the DNR is overreacting?

"They're overreacting," Goff said. "People are upset with the DNR making such a big deal with CWD when they first found it and it scared the hell out of people. I'll do things by the law, but it's not that I like it. If we have to kill deer, I'll kill the deer on my own property."

& Hall, after delaying the DNR with lawsuits, now will receive payments from the state & the feds for the slaughtered deer. IMHO, he should receive nothing, in fact, he ought to pay for the lab work.

"Hall will receive state and federal indemnity payments for the 76 deer killed in the breeding pens. The amount of compensation, which is based on breeding age and trophy status, has not been finalized."

Is this the same Stan Hall that we now have in Wisco(tmElka)? & if it is, why did the DNR grant him a game farm license with this sort of history?

“(This herd had been designated a trace herd by 27 Oct 98. No information is available at this time about adverse elk health at this facility or elk shipped from this facility. Gregory L. and Dale P. Stires of Chino, Calif .and formerly Stanley Hall owned and operated the Elk Valley Game Ranch in Gallatin County as partners since 1986. In June of 1986, Hall purchased thirty-eight head of elk from Martin Carelli. In 1992, tuberculosis was found in a wild mule deer doe shot outside the fence of the game farm which hae been under a TB quarantine. The game farm is located on I-90 25 miles east of Billings.”

Interesting note concerning Hall's selling deer to another game farm. If he's the same guy from Montana, it makes sense. He apparently doesn't care what he does to the animals or the humans, just so he is making money with his canned hunts.

Another Stan Hall. How many of these guys are out there? This name can't be that popular. Listen to what this Stan Hall has to say:

"The white-tailed deer is the most sought-after trophy animal in North America. We don't have enough animals to meet the demand of the American hunter. While there is the potential for profitability, however, there is also the fact that this is a long-term investment: animals have to be five years old before they can be harvested, so the return on the investment is not quick. That's why we urge both industry members and those who are thinking about joining the industry to attend the conference. We want them to hear the real story."

The market forces at work. Sounds like something SueHank Martinsen would be interested in. Oh, wait a minute. One of SueHank's relatives has elk in his fenced in "hunting preserve." What is it with these ReThugs & their killing of tame animals?

Look where the imported deer & elk came from:

"The 931 Wisconsin deer and elk farms now manage approximately 35,000 animals, making this one of the leading states in the multibillion dollar U.S. deer and elk trade, which provides trophy hunts and sells antlers, the velvet from them (the so-called "velvet Viagra") and scent used to lure deer. Since 1996, Wisconsin farms have imported 3,000 animals, some from infected herds in Colorado, Nebraska and Saskatchewan, and since 2000, more than 900 have moved within the state from farm to farm."
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The minutes explain that most of Wisconsin's deer and elk farms are primarily breeders of trophy animals (not meat producers) and "don't necessarily want to know" if they have CWD. So instead of testing animals that died or were killed on their farms, potential threats to the state's free-ranging deer, all of the state's deer farmers and most of its elk farmers ignored the problem -- with the state regulator's blessing.
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"More than 80 percent "hadn't been doing any testing. Well, what does it suggest when one of the first captive deer tested after the new mandatory CWD testing law passed in late August tests positive for CWD?" asks UW ecologist Cary. Perhaps fittingly, the CWD-infected buck shot September 4 by an out-of-state hunter who paid $4,000 to hunt on an Almond, Wisconsin, game farm, belonged to Stan Hall, a member of DATCP's do-nothing advisory committee. “"

So this is the end of a post about something completely different. Well, probably not. It’s really about this notion that the rich don’t have to follow the same rules as the rest of us. I mean, a 59 acre “trophy hunting” ground? Good grief. That’s just a bit more than a quarter mile square. Tough hunting alright. & then, of course, deny that anything is wrong & file lawsuits to stop the state from enforcing the law. & the end result is that almost all of the deer are infected with CWD & most of the big bucks have mysteriously disappeared. Convenient hole in the fence, eh? I wonder if those deer were shipped to, oh, I don’t know, Montana?