Deer

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Texas is home to millions of acres of excellent wildlife habitat, providing exceptional hunting from the Red River to the Rio Grande. The rub for many hunters, however, is the sheer fact that the majority of that land is inaccessible, resting squarely in private hands and open only to...
Chronic wasting disease continues to be a hot-button topic in numerous white-tailed deer hunting hot spots, including Texas, which again has notched another milestone biologists, land managers, breeders and hunters won't want to see. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has documented more chronic wasting disease positives at deer breeding facilities...
Texas deer hunting is known across the country for both quantity and quality. And while many folks typically associate the Lone Star State as being a land primarily under high fence, there are huge bucks taken each year on low-fence lands. Many of those bucks are taken on smaller tracts...
Revelations this week by Texas wildlife officials that more than 200 white-tailed deer were euthanized at a South Texas hunting ranch with a deer breeding operation highlight the threat of chronic wasting disease and the no-holds barred effort to keep it from creeping into the state. Texas Parks and Wildlife...