OUTDOORS & REC
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TURKEY
Continued from Page B1
A turkey shot with a
muzzleloader is only half-
smoked. On Christmas Eve,
I took the bird out of the
freezer, skinless and bone-
less, and let it sit in a brine
for 24 hours. On Christmas
Day, I took the bird out,
scored it with a knife and
coated it with pineapple/
roasted garlic Justy’s Jelly.
With the dark meat and
jelly folded inside, the bird,
wrapped in bacon, bound
with string and coated with
olive oil, went inside the
Camp Chef pellet grill into
a haze of maple, apple and
hickory smoke.
We kept the juices in
and let the jelly and bacon
blend with that true wild
fl avor and tender meat. It
took an hour and a half for
the internal meat probe to
read 165 degrees, which is
the magic number.
Speculation before
Thanksgiving this year
was that supply chain dis-
ruptions were making it
harder to buy a Butterball.
According to the USDA,
frozen turkey invento-
ries were 24% below
their three-year average
volumes.
Not so in the oaks and
pine forests of Northeastern
Oregon. From the fi rst of
December through the end
of January, a hunter can use
a fall turkey tag on private
lands. Hunters may pur-
chase tags through the end
of the season.
That’s how to smoke a
turkey.
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Gary Lewis is the author
of Fishing Central Oregon
and Oregon Lake Maps and
Fishing Guide and other
titles. To contact Gary, visit
www.garylewisoutdoors.com.
Gary Lewis/Contributed Photo
Part of the challenge of hunting with a muzzleloader is tailoring the
load to the task then patterning it at the range.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2021
DISEASE
Continued from Page B1
Lab at odfw.wildlifehealth@odfw.
oregon.gov or 866-968-2600 if you
see an animal with the symptoms
described.
Hunters should not shoot a deer
or elk that appears sick. If you fi nd
evidence of disease after you have
shot it, ODFW veterinarians recom-
mend that you do not eat the meat
and call your local ODFW biologist.
What steps will ODFW take if
an animal tests positive?
Unfortunately, there is no vac-
cine, treatment or cure for CWD
and no eff ective way to eradicate
it once it is established in a pop-
ulation. But if CWD is detected
in Oregon, ODFW will further
increase testing of deer and elk in
that area to gain a better under-
standing of the prevalence and dis-
tribution of the disease. Knowing
where the disease exists will help
ODFW target monitoring and sam-
pling eff orts and control the dis-
ease’s prevalence.
“Reducing the density of ani-
mals in infected populations slows
the spread of the disease, partic-
ularly by culling older animals as
they tend to have a higher preva-
lence due to more time and oppor-
tunity to come in contact with the
disease,” Gillin said. “Adult males
also have higher prevalence due
to their behaviors such as licking,
grooming, bachelor groups, and
breeding behavior.”
If CWD is detected in Oregon,
emergency regulations may be
needed — including special carcass
disposal rules — to avoid prions
being left on the landscape or
testing of all hunter-harvested deer
and elk in infected hunt areas.
States with CWD infected ani-
mals have not seen large population
Wyoming Fish and Game/Contributed Photo
An elk with late-stage Chronic Wasting Disease showing typical symptoms (drooling, car-
rying head low, exaggerated wide posture). In most cases, it is diffi cult to determine if an
animal has CWD until it is tested because the disease takes months to several years to cause
clinical symptoms and eventual death.
declines in their deer and elk pop-
ulations, Gillin said. But research
indicates declines may be possible
if there is high prevalence of the
disease — another reason why lim-
iting the occurrence of CWD in
the population will be important
even though the disease can’t be
eradicated.
Roadkill sampling resumes,
mandatory check stations in 2022
When the Oregon legislature
passed a law allowing the salvage of
roadkilled deer and elk a few years
ago, an administrative rule also
required that salvaged animal heads
be brought to ODFW offi ces for
CWD testing. Research indicates
animals with CWD are less likely
to be able to avoid an approaching
vehicle, making them good candi-
dates to test for the disease.
Mandatory roadkill check-in
requirement has temporarily been
limited to male deer and elk since
March 2020 due to COVID-related
offi ce closures. With state offi ces set
to reopen Jan. 3, 2022, surrender
of heads from all salvaged deer
and elk will again be required for
testing as described in the perma-
nent rules. Anyone who salvages a
deer or elk will be required to bring
in the head and antlers to an ODFW
offi ce within fi ve days for testing.
House Bill 3152, a bill intro-
duced by the Oregon Hunters Asso-
ciation and passed by the 2021
Legislature, requires that anyone
transporting harvested wildlife or
parts of harvested wildlife stop at
a check station, if they encounter
one, beginning in 2022. Additional
information and rule language will
be available prior to the fall hunting
season when ODFW expects to host
mandatory check stations again.
For more information on CWD
in Oregon, go to https://myodfw.
com/CWD or the CWD Alliance.
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