I seriously wonder if CWD has always been around, and it's just that over the last 10 years, they've learned how to better diagnose it. 

Plus, hunters are now more aware.  There could have been some very sick deer shot years ago, that prior to the CWD scare, hunters just chalked it up to malnourishment and then threw them away.  They wouldn't have thought to report them.

Just a thought, anyway.

Although it's all over Colorado now it has not reached my hunting units yet. But like I have said before I believe it will continue to spread. We have been testing here for many years now and you you can see the slow progression in the maps they put out every year showing the units that have tested positive.

Thanks for keeping us up to date Flounder.  I  haven’t heard anything new about chronic wasting disease for some time so I was hoping that it was behind us or at the very least no longer spreading to new areas.  Sadly, I guess sthat is not the case.  I have not seen any reports of chronic wasting disease inside of New York or the contiguous bordering states or provinces (except possibly on an enclosed deer farm).  Am I the only one who was thinking that Chronic Wasting Disease was on the decline nationwide?  Is it just a  lack of media coverage like teh epidemic of fdeadly Lyme disease?  I don't think I would hunt in an area where the deer have been shown to have Chronic Wasting disease.  I sure wouldn't eat any of them no matter what the spion doctor press reports say about no "documented" ie conclusively proven cases of direct transmission to humans.  Lets hope that the next mention we see in teh news of CWD is more positive and announces declines in occurance or a way to otherwise contain or eliminate it!