Ex-Game and Fish Commissioner opposed Chronic Wasting Disease plan By Greg Hirst on February 7, 2021
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CASPER, Wyo Former Wyoming Game and Fish Commission member Mike Schmid told Oil City News that his continued opposition to the Chronic Wasting Disease Management Plan was likely the official reason for his removal from the commission last week.
Schmid served four years on the commission and was part of the CWD working group that drafted the plan, which was approved by the commission last July.
CWD is nervous system disease affecting primarily mule deer and elk and is always fatal. It is caused by a submicroscopic proteins called prions that accumulate in the soil and is very difficult to eradicate. No immunity, recovery, or absolute resistance to CWD has been documented.