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TWS Intervenes in Texas Deer Breeder's Case

The Wildlife Society in conjunction with the Izaak Walton League of America has intervened as a 3rd party in behalf of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, who are being sued by a group of white-tailed deer breeders over whether deer held under Scientific Deer Breeder's Permits are privately owned. The Texas Chapter of TWS, although not intervening in the case, asked the national Society to help. With the addition of TWS and the IWLA as 3rd parties, the deer breeders will not be able to drop the suit, and the case will go to court in Travis County for a judge's decision.

TWS intervened after hearing of the case over concerns that the case may have national implications. The Public Trust Doctrine holds that some resources, such as water and wildlife, are of such great national value that they belong to the public, rather than to individuals. In Texas, hunters may pay for access to hunt deer, but are not actually purchasing the deer as private property. The decision to intervene in this case was made by an 8 - 1 vote of the TWS Council, after extensive discussion with the IWLA, the National Wildlife Federation, the Boone & Crockett Club, the AFWA, and the Texas Attorney General's Office. Bob Brown, President of TWS, commented, "This joining of TWS, a scientific society of wildlife professionals, and the Izaak Walton League of America, a hunting-conservation association, in support of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, signifies TWS' support of on-the-ground biologist's in their efforts to manage our nation's wildlife resources."

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What does this mean? Obviously...That TPWD is being sued, by breeders over who owns the deer? But

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"....the deer breeders will not be able to drop the suit, and the case will go to court in Travis County for a judge's decision.

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Could "things" be coming to a head? Like a big ZIT?


Phish-TX

PS I just hope the judge doesn't have a whitetail breeder operation. Or sit on the Commission

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Well I know one of the guys that is involved in the suing. He and some other Breeders got together and stood up to TPWD and decided to sue the state not for money but for the State to recognize that the deer in their pens are their property not the States. Their stance is they paid for them, they feed them, they breed them etc and sell them, them without any state assistance.

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