Significant BC Deer Die Off

[IronNoggin]

Testing planned after 30 deer found dead in two weeks in Grand Forks, B.C.​

Samples have been collected to try and figure out what has killed at least 30 deer over the last two weeks in and around Grand Forks, B.C.

Jeff Gailey, president of the Grand Forks Wildlife Association, says he won't speculate on the cause, but the samples will be tested for bluetongue and epizootic hemorrhagic disease, which killed a large number of California bighorn sheep in the region in 2021.

Gailey says the animals all appear to be in good health when their bodies are found, though a young animal was recently discovered with some discharge.

He says the local veterinarian is not able to do the testing, so the samples will have to be taken nearly 200 kilometres north to Penticton for answers, hopefully by Wednesday.

Gailey says the uncertainty has people in the community on edge but that the deaths don't appear to be caused by chronic wasting disease, a different fatal illness that was discovered in B.C. for the first time last year.

The provincial government website describes EHD and bluetongue as similar hemorrhagic diseases where viruses cause sudden death.

"Hemorrhage and lack of oxygen in the blood result in a blue appearance of the oral mucosa, hence the name 'bluetongue'," the website says.

"Between eight and 36 hours following the onset of signs, animals usually go into shock, collapse and die," the website says.

https://www.castanet.net/news/Nelso...r-found-dead-in-two-weeks-in-Grand-Forks-B-C-

 

[45ACPKING]

crazy..... hope they get it figured out.

 

[jimbo45]

Thats horible but its mother natures way of earth balancing act. And now in the news 20 dirty politicians contracted blue tongue i vent when i can pls bear with me

 

[bunny]

The town of Grand forks is infested with white tails, a lot of locals won’t eat them, some call them round up deer as they eat so much vegetation that has been heavily sprayed with round up herbicide.

 

[OTG8]

Sad to hear.
I drove though there last week and there was a beauty white tail buck just before the bridge.
Hopefully its not too infectious for the ungulate population in my neck of the woods.

 

[sam menard]

EHD could be the culprit. Some folks claim that it’s a worse concern for deer than CWD!

 

[rajczak_kashka]

Yeah and BC Marxist government hired American contract hunters to shoot deer from helicopters with suppressed AR15 (assault style weapons) on the Gulf Islands in a cull last two summers. Cost the BC taxpayers $10,000 per deer when all was said and done. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the BC government who poisoned these deer to stop hunting …

 

[Suther]

Yeah and BC Marxist government hired American contract hunters to shoot deer from helicopters with suppressed AR15 (assault style weapons) on the Gulf Islands in a cull last two summers. Cost the BC taxpayers $10,000 per deer when all was said and done. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the BC government who poisoned these deer to stop hunting …

That was a project done by Parks Canada, not the BC govt. So everyone gets the bill for that, not just those of us in BC.


Anyone happen to know how common EHD or Bluetongue is in these parts? I know they've caused some pretty big die offs in the states in the past, but I can't say I see it talked about much in Western Canada?

 

[rajczak_kashka]

That was a project done by Parks Canada, not the BC govt. So everyone gets the bill for that, not just those of us in BC.


Anyone happen to know how common EHD or Bluetongue is in these parts? I know they've caused some pretty big die offs in the states in the past, but I can't say I see it talked about much in Western Canada?

I stand corrected . Thank you. The BC government are Marxists though …

 

[struff55]

Yeah and BC Marxist government hired American contract hunters to shoot deer from helicopters with suppressed AR15 (assault style weapons) on the Gulf Islands in a cull last two summers. Cost the BC taxpayers $10,000 per deer when all was said and done. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the BC government who poisoned these deer to stop hunting …

with suppressors and assault style weapons that's absolutely criminal

 

[rajczak_kashka]

with suppressors and assault style weapons that's absolutely criminal

In helicopters to boot! They couldn’t hire local hunters and the meat could have been harvested? We are living in a Marxist authoritarian state and most can’t see it ..

 

[Suther]

In helicopters to boot! They couldn’t hire local hunters and the meat could have been harvested? We are living in a Marxist authoritarian state and most can’t see it ..

Clearly you don't know the kind of people who live on that island. Not a chance they'd approve of that.

Although I wouldn't approve of random hunters shooting deer within 25m of my home either.

 

[rajczak_kashka]

Clearly you don't know the kind of people who live on that island. Not a chance they'd approve of that.

Although I wouldn't approve of random hunters shooting deer within 25m of my home either.

So let’s hire foreign gunmen in helicopters using guns that are prohibited in this country with prohibited devices attached to the end of the barrels namely suppressors ? Yeah..sounds like that would be much more palatable to the leftist hippies who inhabit the BC Gulf Islands

 

[Suther]

So let’s hire foreign gunmen in helicopters using guns that are prohibited in this country with prohibited devices attached to the end of the barrels namely suppressors ? Yeah..sounds like that would be much more palatable to the leftist hippies who inhabit the BC Gulf Islands

Yes. Professionals are much more palatable than Joe blow hunter to leftist hippies. Especially when you add things like shooting from moving vehicles and shooting within 25m of an occupied dwelling. Not really sure why anyone would be surprised by that...

 

[rajczak_kashka]

Yes. Professionals are much more palatable than Joe blow hunter to leftist hippies. Especially when you add things like shooting from moving vehicles and shooting within 25m of an occupied dwelling. Not really sure why anyone would be surprised by that...

So you are saying that there were “professionals” shooting fallow deer from a helicopter with a suppressed AR15 that were within 25 meters of an occupied dwelling?
What are you and the hippies smokin man ?

 

[rajczak_kashka]

So you are saying that there were “professionals” shooting fallow deer from a helicopter with a suppressed AR15 that were within 25 meters of an occupied dwelling? And this is a good idea?
What are you and the hippies smokin man ?

 

[Suther]

So you are saying that there were “professionals” shooting fallow deer from a helicopter with a suppressed AR15 that were within 25 meters of an occupied dwelling?
What are you and the hippies smokin man ?

Are you really so dumb as to think that's what I just said?

That explains a lot.

 

[rajczak_kashka]

Are you really so dumb as to think that's what I just said?

That explains a lot.

That’s EXACTLY what you said

 

[45ACPKING]

with suppressors and assault style weapons that's absolutely criminal

and not only that..... they acted in worse and inhumane ways by deploying a lengthy deer catch fence which resulted in many deer getting stuck in the fencing and suffering horrible injuries and prolonged deaths. Residents exposed it and some deer were able to be freed but many died in cruel inhumane fashion before the outcry from locals caught media attention. To make matters worse, the injured and deceased animals caught in the fence , from what i hear from a resident, were primarily the non target species of local deer. Same for the ones killed by helicopter hunting..... lots of the wrong species. The culling was for introduced Fallow deer not the resident Sitka Blacktail. Sadly, a great many Sitkas have been killed during this wantonly irresponsible and ill conceived plan.

 

[SilentKnight]

"Professionals" is an interesting way to describe the guy's who killed a bunch of the wrong species in that cull lol...