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Could CWD at landfill pose a future threat?
Gazette Extra - gazettextra.com
17 Nov 2009
F Schultz

If we throw deer carcasses that carry chronic wasting disease into our landfills, will the disease be transmitted to animals—or humans—decades from now?

Science does not yet have the answer.

So what do we do in the meantime with the carcasses from deer in this part of the state, where chronic wasting disease, or CWD, is most prevalent?

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Saving wildlife in a warmer world
The Christian Science Monitor - features.csmonitor.com
17 Nov 2009
M Clayton
Photo courtesy of J Lessman/The Powell

Whether it’s a polar bear clinging to a melting iceberg in the Arctic or a tiny, rabbitlike pika panting atop a warming mountain in western North America, scientists say that these species and others could be historical footnotes unless people help them survive. . .

But sweeping changes that would accompany projected climate change mean that an animal’s traditional range may no longer be habitable to it in a few years – or that a key food source or resource it needs is disappearing. And that calls for different solutions from those in the past.

“The business-as-usual approach to managing wildlife populations and resources is no longer likely to work very well,” says John Wiens, chief conservation science officer for the Point Reyes Bird Observatory in Petaluma, Calif. “We can’t say anymore, ‘Hey, we’ll do some management to control this threat, and everything will be hunky-dory,’ or ‘Preserve some habitat and some organisms, and everything will be fine.’ ”

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