A Texas lawmaker who breeds deer wants to abolish Texas Parks and Wildlife, which helps regulate deer breeders in the state.

Photo by Nick de la Torre for the Houston Chronicle / Getty Images During a traffic stop outside Houston earlier this month, Texas game wardens caught two deer breeders trying to move captive ...

After public backlash, Texas Rep. Pat Curry withdraws his bill to dismantle the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, ensuring ...

That set off an investigation by Texas Game Wardens that led to 22 suspects and 1,200 pending charges involving illegal white-tailed deer breeding operations on the black market statewide.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said wardens uncovered a larger network of alleged offenders during a previous investigation involving the illegal smuggling of captive white-tailed deer.

DALLAS — A South Texas deer breeder and his business partner were recently convicted of a slew of charges tied to their involvement in illegally moving captive white-tailed deer across county ...

The deer population in Texas is vulnerable to Chronic Wasting ... Wasting Disease would pose a major threat to the state's white-tailed deer hunting industry, which generates about $9.6 billion ...

In a post on Facebook, State Rep. Pat Curry said the bill he filed, HB 4938, was done so as a mechanism to bring TPWD to the ...

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has referred the cases to prosecutors’ offices in 11 Texas counties. The cases stem from a prior investigation involving the illegal smuggling of captive white-tailed deer, ultimately leading ...