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What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic here, joined by Mr. Dan Storm, PhD, Dear Research

Scientist with the Wisconsin DNR. Dan, you've been on the podcast before. Welcome back.

Thank you. It's always great to have you here. A similar topic today, maybe with a little bit more

info,

we're going to be talking about the Southwest Wisconsin Deer and Predator Study,

which is recently or fairly recently wrapped up.

Yep, that's right.

And we're still analyzing data, and we'll be analyzing data for a while now.

But yeah, we've got the major results, you know, are wrapped up.

And, yeah, happy to start presenting those results, you know, are wrapped up.

And, yeah, happy to start presenting those. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you guys did a lot of work here.

Multi-year study. We'll get into some of the specifics. Learned a lot, like you said, have more to learn.

And, man, this is something that I've been awaiting the results on, extremely interested in.

And also, I think what you guys will learn and get out of it, this isn't a Wisconsin thing.

This is a CWD thing.

And so I think, you know, if you're out there and you're like, oh, I don't live in Wisconsin, this doesn't really affect me.

Well, number one, CWD is in a lot of states now. Yeah, yeah.

And I'll actually, I want to, if we can get some specifics on that later, I'd love to do that as well.

And so this information should be, if you care about deer, if you care about, you know, if you're a hunter, probably information that's relevant to you, your passions and the animals that you care about.

Yeah, absolutely. Now it's in, CWD has been detected in every Midwestern state.

There's very few states now that haven't had it detected. I couldn't tell you the full list of what has and hasn't.

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