Texas Wildlife Officials Considering New Deer Movement Rules in Response to CWD
News Release Media Contact: Steve Lightfoot, 512-389-4701,
steve.lightfoot@tpwd.state.tx.us
Sept. 5, 2012
Wildlife Officials Considering New Deer Movement Rules in Response to
CWD
AUSTIN – State wildlife officials say more deliberation is needed before
new rules are adopted governing Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s regulatory
response to the detection of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Texas.
Consideration of proposed rules restricting deer movement in the CWD affected
area of far West Texas will be delayed until the Texas Parks and Wildlife
Commission’s November meeting.
“Because this is a very dynamic process involving a complex disease, our
approach to proposed rules regarding unnatural deer movement is one of caution,”
said Mitch Lockwood, TPWD big game program director. “The consensus among our
CWD task force is that additional measures need consideration beyond what we
originally proposed.”
Proposed rules being considered would limit permitted deer movement into or
from areas in which CWD has been discovered as well as areas for which there is
a moderate to high probability that the disease exists undetected.
In addition to permitted movement restrictions, officials will be
collecting samples from hunter harvested mule deer for CWD testing. All mule
deer harvested in the CWD Containment Zone of El Paso, Hudspeth, and Culberson
counties during the upcoming mule deer season, Nov. 23-Dec. 9 will be inspected
by officials at mandatory hunter check stations and tested for CWD. Mandatory
check stations will be set up at the Van Horn Convention Center and at Mae’s
Café in Cornudas.
Also, hunters in the surrounding High Risk Zone are encouraged to submit
their harvested deer for CWD testing at voluntary check stations in Bakersfield,
Midland, Alpine and Sanderson, scheduled to be open during all three weekends of
the general mule deer season.
TPWD plans to post all test results on the agency’s website as soon as
results are received from Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory.
Additional information, including maps of the Containment and High Risk
Zones, check station locations and other details will be made available on the
TPWD website prior to the mule deer season.
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