Katerine Aubry

Not all Vermonters benefit from trapping

WARDSBORO-I agree, we do need facts.

Have you heard of CWD (chronic wasting disease)? It's a fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects deer, elk, and moose. It is prevalent out west but unfortunately making its way towards Vermont, having been spotted in New York and Pennsylvania.

And as we know as a fact, it's essential to have a healthy predatory wildlife so they can cull the weak and diseased - and, yes, sometimes Bambi - but we are not here to play with feelings and emotions, are we?

So the point here is that coyotes should be viewed as allies to the hunters, ensuring the health of the deer population.

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