Thus far, although recommended for high prevalence areas, culling deer has not been shown to significantly decrease prevalence where CWD is known to be established.
However, density reductions (due to culling, or otherwise) may successfully control disease spread to uninfected areas.
Translation-In CWD zones, killing deer of ALL types is the only plan to follow, but even then it may not be effective in decreasing prevalence in the hot zones. In CWD hot zones and in area's OUTSIDE of the CWD zones, killing more antlerless deer (the most effective way to achieve density reductions) may help slow the spread to other area's.
That means in the CWD zone, kill everything you can. Bucks, does, fawns and lift APR's and antlerless quota's, along with baiting and feeding bans. But that's already being done. We're following the CWD plan.
In all the area's with no CWD, the best course of action is to lower deer herds before CWD possibly gets there. Given the experience in the NW13 and in all the other states where APR's have been implemented, that is best achieved by some sort of APR coupled with increased opportunity for antlerless harvest, by way of increased antlerless tags and antlerless seasons.
Emergency culling vs. managed herd reductions
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