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Andy Holland

Andy Holland

Big Game Manager at Colorado Parks and Wildlife in Fort Collins, overseeing big-game license setting and mule deer, elk, and bison management.

Oct 1, 2026

26:23
If you could just very briefly kind of explain what CWD is and how we kind of got to the point where we are here in 2026.
26:31
Chronic wasting disease is a spongiform encephalopathy, transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, and it's a prion disease.
26:39
It's misshapen, misfolded proteins.
26:42
Other species have similar afflictions.
26:46
It's called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle, and it's just one of those type of diseases, it's always fatal.
26:55
So it, that any deer with it is going to die within a year to two years.
27:00
And so when you look at those prevalence maps in our brochure and it shows many of our herds between five and 30% prevalence, like that's 30% of the two year old and older bucks that have it will die in a year to two years.

23 MINS LATER

50:38
But can you talk a little bit more about just some of the relationship between our deer herds and our predator population?

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