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			<title><![CDATA[Another bad acronym for Michigan deer: EHD]]></title>
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			<author>(Dave Spratt)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[The Michigan DNR said today that it was epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) that killed more than 50 deer along the Clinton River in Oakland and Macomb counties in recent weeks.
The viral disease is a nasty one, transmitted by teensie little flies -- midges -- about 1/10-inch long. It causes]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:35 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[CWD news could raise new questions]]></title>
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			<author>(Dave Spratt)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Let's not muster up a parade just yet, but the news on  

chronic wasting disease isn't all bad.
Steve Halstead, the 
Michigan Department of Agriculture's top veterinarian, says he expects that tests for the four remaining suspect deer from the Kent County herd to come up negative.
If you've]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:38 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Is CWD spreading?]]></title>
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			<author>(Dave Spratt)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[If you were to compile a map of Michigan's 
chronic wasting disease areas, you'd obviously start with a dot on Kent County, where a 3-year-old captive doe was confirmed positive last week.
Then what?
Well, Michigan Department of Agriculture officials confirmed this morning that in recent weeks,]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:44 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[More on chronic wasting disease]]></title>
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			<author>(Dave Spratt)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[If you've been following the horrible news that Michigan is now a chronic wasting disease state, you know that the Department of Natural Resources has been very aggressive in its efforts to stop the spread of the insidious, fatal disease.
The 50 or so deer in the Kent County facility where the]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:01 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Put down that bait -- please]]></title>
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			<author>(Dave Spratt)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[So  chronic wasting disease is in Michigan now.
No big surprise there. With all the game ranches and deer and elk farms, it was only a matter of time.
What counts most now is whether it can be contained to that one single captive deer in Kent County. Let's hope like heck it can be.
The DNR]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:03 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Duck, goose seasons set]]></title>
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			<author>(Dave Spratt)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[At last, Michigan's Natural Resources Commission has simplified the hunting zones for geese.
Now, just like ducks, the goose zones are simply north, middle and south. Easy enough.
North is the Upper Peninsula. Middle is the northern Lower Peninsula. South is pretty self-explanatory. The dividing]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:11 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Knucklehead, knucklehead, knucklehead]]></title>
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			<author>(Dave Spratt)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[We all make mistakes, right?
Right?
If you read the previous post about how magical the trail cam is, you may recall that since there didn't appear to be much traffic around the salt block, I moved the trail cam.
The new spot was very clearly a heavily traveled zone between cover and cornfield. A]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 4:20 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Scout's honor]]></title>
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			<author>(Dave Spratt)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[The camera doesn't lie.
Deer hit the salt lick. Hard.
On July 5, I put a digital trail camera out to scout my main bowhunting spot. To give the deer a reason to stop, I added a salt block. A plain old water-softener salt block.
And then I left. For five weeks.
I retrieved the memory card last]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:35 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Go, Compact, go]]></title>
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			<author>(Dave Spratt)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[The  Great Lakes Compact headed to Congress today.
That means the historic agreement between the eight Great Lakes states and two Canadian provinces is essentially in the home stretch.
If Congress says yes, it becomes the law of the land.
The Compact, you may recall, is the one that tells the]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:09 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[St. Clair breathalyzers rankle anglers]]></title>
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			<author>(Dave Spratt)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[We've all heard Jeff Foxworthy's line about being too drunk to fish.
The cops who patrol Lake St. Clair aren't laughing.
Word around the lake is that they're stopping anglers and performing breathalyzers to make sure everybody is boating sober.
I'm sure they'd tell you that they're getting tired]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:11 PM</pubDate>
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