www.outdoorlife.com
Thanks for the link.Ax-grinding.
"In one of the more brazen acts of the 2025 Texas legislative session, a lawmaker who breeds high-fence deer has introduced a law to abolish the state fish-and-game agency that also helps regulate the breeding of high-fence deer.
"Texas Rep. Pat Curry (R-Waco) says his proposed legislation is an attempt to reform and improve the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, an agency that he claims has “lost its way.” It’s one of several bills filed in the Texas legislature that seeks to overhaul the state’s management of Chronic Wasting Disease and appears to be written explicitly for the Texas deer breeding industry."
Texas Lawmaker Who Breeds Deer Wants to Abolish the State Wildlife Agency That Regulates Deer Breeders
A Texas lawmaker who breeds deer wants to abolish Texas Parks and Wildlife, which helps regulate deer breeders in the state.
I agree with you about it being one of the better run game agencies. Then again, I don't raise pet deer.
Keep in mind a few months ago a truck and trailer carrying multiple trophy bucks was pulled over by Texas DPS officers and later checked by local game wardens. It was found the deer were being illegally transported to deer breeding facilities in South Texas, which led to violations at additional deer breeding ranches in Texas. While significant fines were paid, I'm sure they were a fraction of the revenue-producing potential the deer that was lost to the breeders. Now Sid Miller, the Texas Ag Commissioner has jumped onboard and is supporting the legislation for its cost savings potential, not to mention how deer breeding would be governed by the same department that provides oversight for breeding livestock. If it wasn't already obvious that Texans raise and harvest wild deer much like cattle, it should be now.
