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

A smaller bust from early last month has implicated 22 individual deer breeders operating in 11 Texas counties. (Photo/TPW) ...

Photo by Devin Pettigrew / courtesy Center for Big Bend Studies A hunter was looking for deer on a West Texas ranch last season when he came ... and Nevada, and even as far south as Costa Rica, ...

"I once spent twenty-eight days in a stand hunting for one deer ... support whitetail management, the ranch has extensive built infrastructure to host large groups from far away.

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 ...