AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas is home to 1,300 deer breeders, more than any other state, but after one confirmed case of chronic wasting disease last month, officials want to take action now. Some 400 people ...

During a traffic stop outside Houston earlier this month, Texas game wardens caught two deer breeders trying to move captive whitetails illegally across the state. The men pleaded guilty, and they ...

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 ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas — A Texas deer breeder and his partner were caught trying to smuggle improperly identified white-tail deer, also known as "ghost deer," across the state, according to a ...

Re: “Legislation needed to protect wild deer population,” Another View, Aug. 24: Jenny Sanders of Texans for Saving Our Hunting Heritage recently took to these pages to claim that deer breeding, a ...

Two Texas men owe $12,060 in fines for a combined 60 violations related to smuggling captive whitetail deer across the state and other charges, a TPWD press release announced on Feb. 6. The men—a deer ...

TYLER, Texas — A licensed deer breeder from Austin must serve three years of probation for illegally transporting wildlife in east Texas. U.S. Attorney John Bales says 41-year-old Lance Clawson was ...

Texas Game Wardens have uncovered a sprawling network of illegal deer breeders and smugglers engaged in the black-market wildlife trade, they say. The case stems from a previous deer smuggling bust ...