If you feel like wildlife officials aren't working hard to fight CWD and TB, think again.
The battle against chronic wasting disease has been a losing one for quite a while now. The neurological disease continues to spread, despite wildlife officials' best efforts to control it. States have implemented deer check stations, where hunters are required to check their harvests within a certain window of time.
Of the states with CWD management high on their priority lists, Michigan has arguably been the most tenacious. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources was able to test more than 30,000 deer heads throughout the 2018 hunting seasons for CWD and Bovine Tuberculosis.
And, just to paint a picture of how much work goes into the testing, the DNR released a time-lapse video from the surveillance cameras at the Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health in Lansing.
The video below shows us one day at the lab.
The process to test a deer for these diseases is a complex one used nationwide. They remove lymph nodes from every deer, then take a small piece of tissue from the internal part to be tested for CWD.
It's imperative that hunters cooperate with wildlife agencies to combat CWD, otherwise we'll eventually lose this fight and ultimately our favorite big-game animal.
In the caption of this Facebook post, the DNR credited Michigan hunters for carrying their weight in the collective effort.
Michigan's current CWD Management Zone includes Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Gratiot, Hillsdale, Ingham, Ionia, Isabella, Jackson, Kent, Mecosta, Montcalm, Muskegon, Newaygo, Ottawa and Shiawassee counties.
Using a thorough approach and essentially locking down the Lower Peninsula, the DNR is doing everything it can to keep CWD numbers in check. Many other states are using these methods, too.
It's up to us as hunters to meet our wildlife officials halfway and take control of this devastating disease.
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