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Hamilton Reef
10-28-2004, 10:42 AM
$30,000 research elk shot near Hesperus

The carcass of a bull elk used to research chronic wasting disease and valued at $30,000 was found Monday afternoon at the San Juan Basin Research Center, located five miles south of Hesperus.

"The goal of the research is to develop a viable strain that is resistant to chronic wasting disease," said Barry Dyar, the research director of the Cervid Research and Recovery Institute. "He's the best bull we've had, and there's no other bull in that strain."

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Fishndude
11-12-2004, 01:41 PM
Why not harvest the sperm from that Bull, and artifically inseminate some Cows to propogate and pass on his genes? I am surprised scientists did not think of that.