Preserving our hunting heritage in wake of disease
Submitted by Canton1 on
‘The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak. So we must and we will.’ ~ President Theodore Roosevelt
We have long known certain deer breeding practices threaten native wildlife and hunting on a number of levels and the movement of captive deer around the state in livestock trailers creates significant risk to our wild deer population.
Texas hunters are still reeling from the June discovery of Chronic Wasting Disease, an always fatal, highly contagious brain disease similar to Mad Cow disease, in a deer breeding facility in Medina County.
The shocking reality is that deer from this one breeder have been shipped to 66 Texas counties, and during that time, CWD went undetected in his pens.
