Westport Forum Set on Tick-Borne Disease
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Dr. Williams's Link
And the stage is set to replicate the Redding dibacle in Westport.
Westport would be a field day for WB. Pretty sure they are the only town in CT that doesn't allow hunting.
Use taxpayer money to kill deer, and 3 years later there is absolutely no solution to the problem - still ticks, lyme disease, car strikes, etc. How do people allow this to happen. I know - it science!!
Pluto is a planet, we're headed for a 2nd ice age, no wait, globaly warming, etc.
Hey Doc,
Is Dr. Stafford going to usggest Westport opens a hunting program of some sort or just paying WB?
They can afford it so I don't care if WB takes them for a ride. Their fault for not opening to hunting.
i hope they open it up,i have 20 acres there waiting to get plucked
Dr. Williams's Link
Hey Crow, I have no clue what Dr. Stafford is going to talk about. If I had to guess, he will probably lecture on what he has discovered in his research over his many years, how to prevent tick-borne disease, steps people can take to avoid getting ticks on them, tuck in your pants to your socks, use permethrin as Crow suggests, the various stages of ticks and how adults have a higher percent infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, and Babesia microti (and likely Powassan virus) because they have obtained two blood meals on reservoir-competent animals. This is in contrast to the nymphal stages that have only had one blood meal, are less likely to carry the various pathogens as a result, but are responsible for most zoonotic disease cases as they are very small and most active during the summer months when people are enjoying the outdoors. He will probably also talk about what people can do around the house to help lessen the risk, like putting a 4’ wide wood chip layer around the property at the woodland/yard interface to keep ticks from migrating in, to clear heavy brush and dense ground cover from around the house to keep mice from establishing residence and coming in and out the house with their tick loads, use Frontline on your pets. Things of that nature. After all, as I have ascertained from the title of the program, it appears to be a forum on tick-borne diseases; the only time “deer’ is mentioned is in reference to the deer tick. For more information he is likely to speak on, you can see Dr. Stafford’s Tick Management Handbook in the attached link.
Dr Williams,
I think you should cut and paste your tick management words from your last thread to a flyer and hand it out at the meeting in Westport. Excellent info for people who don't understand how to control ticks. Total cost would be about $140k less than hiring WB to kill with no long term impact on the tick population.
I wouldn't hand out Dr Stafford's handbook, too wordy, too technical, and most of the information is not geared at the homeowner who is just trying to live tick free.
This suggestion is the same as getting a flu shot as opposed to killing the people with the flu :)
These posts are kind of telling. Guys dying to get into Westport under the guise of tick-borne disease control and public safety concerns. But when guys are in there a couple years and shoot tons of dumb deer, and then start seeing effects of reductions as prescribed, it's "don't blame the deer" and "where are all the deer." And blame DEEP. Classic. And around and around we go.
Doc
stop posting till you answer the question - why did WB not kill more deer? Those that have nothing to hide, hide nothing.
You're not fooling anyone posting that hunters are dying to get into Westport, no one on the site said anything about it until you started the thread.