Yep, seen it. It isn’t as bad as EHD. That crap wiped out almost half of the deer in the state, and total wipeout of 3-4 counties in one year.
I find that hard to believe as 10% of deer are either naturally immune or can fight off EHD and survive, passing the antibodies on the their offspring.
EHD wiped out many of the deer that the state would have liked to see eliminated, but it wasn’t even across the state, which is what the commission was trying to accomplish.
“Some people still have too many deer,” Hams said, “and some have few or none.”
Hams suggests that in areas most affected by EHD, hunters cut back on the harvest of does. He has predicted populations will rebound in a few years if does are given the opportunity to breed.
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission eliminated about 87,000 permits and bonus tags in 2013 in response to the EHD outbreak of 2012. A significant reduction in harvest was expected.
It was down 30%