ZOOLOGY 651 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Acer Saccharum, Understory, Natural Experiment
13 Dec 2016
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Bambi syndrome only large mammal most of us will see people enjoy to feed/watch hunting. Dnr; implement mostly bucks-only season to increase densities too many: deer-car collisions. ~40,000+ deer-car accidents/year in mi and wi economic losses from dvcs are enormous. >9 billion, nation-wide chronic wasting disease in wild deer and elk. Game farm; buy and sell and move between farms. Males tend to carry more disease than females. Prions: damaged proteins, fold in a different way and propagate. Deer and disease continue to increase despite efforts at control spread in the environment - plants, feces/urine. Has continued to spread where it started has now spread to neighboring states initially made strong efforts to reduce deer herds, these efforts failed and caused public backlash renewed calls for stronger control efforts. Wi dnr"s response to increase cwd cases fewer testing, fewer tested technically means fewer positive cases. Higher risk in higher abundance studies have shown reducing deer reduces lyme disease plant impacts.
