Missouri Department of Conservation’s Matt Seek did a quick cut underneath the buck’s jaw and quickly cut out the small lymph nodes. Total time: About 15 minutes.
Seek was one of 13 of Conservation’s employees at the Optimist Club on Saturday and Sunday collecting lymph node samples that will be tested for chronic wasting disease.
Missouri Department of Conservation’s Matt Seek takes the lymph nodes of a buck shot Saturday. The Optimist Club in Boone County was one of 29 counties to host the mandatory checks.
Statewide, Missouri Conservation had about 1,100 employees in 29 counties working to collect 20,000 samples, which were to be sent to Fort Collins, Colorado to be tested to determine how large the CWD problem is in Missouri.
“That procedure will probably take me about five minutes by this afternoon,” Seek said, “once you do a few of them, you get faster.”
Conservation’s Joanie Straub said hunters were very cooperative when it came to the mandatory checks.
“For many of the hunters, it is sort of like the old check stations,” Straub said, “they have not been bothered by the short time it takes to collect the samples – these hunters want what is best for the herd and the sport.”
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