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Um-You know, coming back I've got, um, you know, I had to come back and deal with, uh, well, work with my clients.

So I've got a large client base that I'm working with, so had to catch up work with that.

So that was actually, um, uh, pretty hectic for a little while 'cause I had two weeks away, and so I had to make up on those two weeks when I got back.

Um, there's a number of local nurseries that are- unfortunately have closed recently, uh, just due to all the financial pressures and issues.

And I used to, um, like send my clients to them to get certain plants, and now that they're closing so I'm starting my own nursery again.

I used to have one years ago that I used to have for clients, and so I used to...

Mm-hmm

and

the risk of transmitting disease just wasn't worth what we were getting out of it.

We were really worried about transmitting chronic wasting disease to different units across the state and others like exotic lice and other diseases and parasites.

So that's kind of why we stopped doing it and why we haven't done it.

And even honestly, at that time, we were we were really looked down upon by other states.

Other states were looking at us like we were psychos for moving deer because they don't do it in a lot of other places because of those disease transmission risks.

So yeah, we've gone away from that.

Um, yeah anything else you want to talk to us about any oh i was going to ask you about projects that are going on um that are helping save deer anything um maybe in the north northern part of the state central southern maybe you got some things you want to share that are going on to help deer