State wildlife officials really want Texans to know that they'd better not try to mess with white-tailed deer. The Texas ...

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 ...

An investigation this week into Texas’ illegal deer breeding industry ... Disease would pose a major threat to the state's white-tailed deer hunting industry, which generates about $9.6 billion ...

Notably, Bellington said in an interview, Rancho Encantado's whitetail deer are all native to South Texas, unlikely many hunting properties that import animals from breeders. Some of the old ...