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Should we even worry about CWD anymore?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5930199" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>That's where natural selection takes effect. If 5 does are born with CWD and 4 of them die after fawning only once, but one lives to fawn 5 times, then you have 5 more deer that are resistant to 4 that aren't. Those 5 new fawns will continue to propagate the resistant disease at a higher rate than the vulnerable deer can propagate the vulnerable genetics. With time nature flip flops the odds in favor of life until the disease is completely mooted, if not eradicated. </p><p></p><p>My fear was/is that TWRA's approach would hinder this process of natural selection by killing deer off en masse with no selectivity. Every time we humans try playing God we fail miserably.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5930199, member: 20583"] That's where natural selection takes effect. If 5 does are born with CWD and 4 of them die after fawning only once, but one lives to fawn 5 times, then you have 5 more deer that are resistant to 4 that aren't. Those 5 new fawns will continue to propagate the resistant disease at a higher rate than the vulnerable deer can propagate the vulnerable genetics. With time nature flip flops the odds in favor of life until the disease is completely mooted, if not eradicated. My fear was/is that TWRA's approach would hinder this process of natural selection by killing deer off en masse with no selectivity. Every time we humans try playing God we fail miserably. [/QUOTE]
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