A 3 1/2-year-old captive raised white-tailed buck harvested in early January by a hunter from a release site on a ranch in Medina and Uvalde counties has been confirmed positive for chronic wasting…
Chronic wasting disease is caused by a pathological agent called a prion, much like mad cow disease or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. It causes fatal neurological degeneration in deer, elk and moose.
TPWD is depopulating the Texas Mountain Ranch too.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department crews are at Texas Mountain Ranch in Medina County are aiming at reducing the number of white tails in the pasture and protecting the state's deer population.
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