Chronic Wasting Disease — United States
Chronic wasting disease [CWD] will cause a Wyoming deer herd to go virtually extinct in 41 years, a 5-year study predicts. [Please see other information farther down in this article that may contradict this statement. – Mod.TG]
The investigation, which relied on the capture of 143 deer, examined the dynamics in the Southern Converse County Mule Deer Herd that lives southwest of Douglas near Laramie Peak. There, a population that once numbered some 14 000 in the early 2000s dwindled to half
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