State Senator District 6, Jim Isgar:
"I strongly support the goals and efforts of the Cervid Research and Recovery Institute"

Bruce L. McCloskey, Director, Colorado Division of Wildlife

"I certainly support your research activities and look forward to our continued collaboration and sharing of information… As you continue your genetic work on potential CWD resistant captive elk, we look forward to potential positive long term implications for wild elk in Colorado."

Russell George, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Natural Resources
"…this letter is to offer the support of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources to you and your goals of utilizing your facilities in furthering scientific inquiry on chronic Wasting Disease...We look forward to your progress and success and anxiously await the valuable scientific results that you and your many collaborators will achieve and share."

Wayne Cunningham DVM, MS, Colorado State Veterinarian:
"From the Colorado State Veterinarian's Office perspective the potential for having an alternative genetic CWD control strategy to depopulation is very exciting."

Gary Shoun, Colorado State Brand Commissioner:
"This office fully supports the efforts of CRRI and Colorado State University to develop and maintain facilities and resources to research solutions to the Chronic Wasting Disease."

Lee E. Sommers, Director of the Agricultural Stations:
"On behalf of the Agricultural Experiment Station at Colorado State University, we are excited to be part of a CWD research program in conjunction with CRRI."

State Representative District 59, Mark Larson:
"The economic implications of expanded CWD infections on Western Slope Colorado has everyone deeply concerned. And the even more serious human health and national economic ramifications if this TSE jumps species obviates the need for the research that CRRI has begun. I wholeheartedly support and endorse the CRRI project and the critical vision it represents."

Clinton J. Balok, DVM, President, Elk Research Council
"The development of genetically resistant animals is a promising long term solution. Similar programs involving scrapie in Sheep are working. CRRI has the facilities, resources, experience and affiliations to be successful. Therefore the ERC recognizes the possible gains against CWD the CRRI may provide and endorses their efforts and pursuits".

La Plata County Commissioners
"The La Plata County Board of County Commissioners is pleased to support the important work of CRRI. Problems associated with CWD have the potential to significantly impact our local economy, particularly with respect to tourism, recreation and hunting activities. CRRI's efforts to develop a research facility at San Juan Basin Research Center near Hesperus are to be lauded."