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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Is It Time to Take Drastic Measures to Combat CWD?
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:31
	Publish Date:		2019-03-11 05:00:00
	Description:		Is it time for Wisconsin to take drastic measures to attempt to get a handle on chronic wasting disease? Our commentator the Masked Biologist examines a proposal called “Payment for Positives” in this week's Wildlife Matters . Chronic Wasting Disease, or CWD, has recently achieved a level of notoriety close to when it was first detected in Wisconsin nearly 20 years ago. There was a flurry of disease surveillance and management going on; in the first deer season after the detection in the wild, there was a drop in license sales and resulting operating revenue that heavily impacted all wildlife management in Wisconsin. The state took a number of measures to try to reduce deer populations in areas where it was detected while trying to determine just how much of an area was impacted by expanding surveillance statewide. There were extra tags, incentive programs, even trained sharpshooters brought to task to try to put the squeeze on this incurable disease. Time passed, though, and as the
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