It’s Christmas Eve, which means we hunters have a week to get the last deer of the season in West Virginia. Maybe you have an unspent tag waiting to be filled, but you don’t have room for another deer in your freezer. This can be a conundrum – something that eats at you as you go to bed ...
As the United States is still reeling from the first wave of COVID-19, the U.S. Congress and wildlife groups are trying to figure out ways to have a better response for the future. The word of the day was “zoonotic” July 22 when the U.S. Senate held a hearing titled, “Stopping ...
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL It seems diseases are all we read about in the past year. Obviously the COVID-19 virus has taken center stage, and it will be there a long time. That virus won’t really impact our deer hunting, but there is another disease that should have hunters ...
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL Chronic Wasting Disease is as nasty for deer as the COVID-19 is for people. Maybe worse. True, we don’t have CWD in deer anywhere near us here. In fact, the only place it is found in West Virginia is in the Eastern Panhandle. ...