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Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) received confirmation of one case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a Trinity County deer breeding facility, the first detection in the county.
A two-year-old white-tailed deer tested positive on a postmortem testing conducted for CWD surveillance requirements for the facility. The Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory (TVMDL) analyzed the samples, and the National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Iowa confirmed the CWD detections. CWD is a fatal neurological disease found in certain cervids, including deer, elk, and moose. It is a slow, progressive disease that may not produce visible signs for years after infection. Signs of the disease include progressive weight loss, stumbling or tremors, loss of appetite, teeth grinding, abnormal head posture, and/ or drooping ears, and excessive thirst, salivation or urination. The disease was first discovered in Texas in 2012 in free-ranging mule deer in the Hueco Mountains near the Texas- New Mexico border. It has since been detected in the Texas captive and free-ranging cervids, including white-tailed deer, mule deer, red deer, and elks. Deer breeders are required to report mortalities within seven days of detection and submit CWD test samples within seven days of collection.
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At the recent April 2024 Texas Society of American Foresters (TSAF) meeting in Livingston, Mac Burns not only received a state plaque for his 2023 service as state chair of the TSAF, but also received an award for “outstanding leadership in the field of forestry.” This is an award for an outstanding professional forester under the age of thirty-five. Mac has been affiliated with Burns Forestry since 2020 and recently completed the Texas A&M Forest Service Leadership Institute (2023-2024) which invites selected natural resource leaders across the state to participate.  |
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