“Game Management,” says James Kroll, driving to his high-fenced, two-hundred-acre spread near Nacogdoches, “is the last bastion of communism.” Kroll, also known as Dr. Deer, is the director of the Forestry Resources Institute of Texas at Stephen F. Austin State University, and the “management” he is referring to is the sort practiced by the State of Texas. The 55-year-old Kroll is the leading light in the field of private deer management as a means to add value to the land. His belief is so absolute that some detractors refer to him as Dr. Dough, implying that his eye is on the bottom line more than on the natural world.
Kroll, who has been the foremost proponent of deer ranching in Texas for more than thirty years, doesn’t mind the controversy and certainly doesn’t fade in the heat. People who call for more public lands are “cocktail conservationists,” he says, who are really pining for socialism. He calls national parks “wildlife ghettos” and flatly accuses the government of gross mismanagement. He argues that his relatively tiny acreage, marked by eight-foot fences and posted signs warning off would-be poachers, is a better model for keeping what’s natural natural while making money off the land.
A trip to South Africa six years ago convinced Kroll that he was on the right track. There he encountered areas of primitive, lush wildlife-rich habitats called game ranches. They were privately owned, privately managed, and enclosed by high fences. He noticed how most of the land outside those fences had been grazed to the nub, used up. “Game ranches there derive their income from these animals — viewing them, hunting them, selling their meat,” he says. “There are no losers.” At his own ranch Kroll has set up a smaller version of the same thing. His land is indeed lush, verdant, with pine groves, an abundance of undergrowth, wild orchids, New Jersey tea, jack-in-the-pulpits, and other native plants. He has also set up a full-scale breeding research center and is one of twenty Texas deer breeders using artificial insemination to improve his herd. “We balance sex and age ratio,” he says. “We manage habitat. We control the population and manage for hunting. I want to leave the deer herd better than it was before we came.”
chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2012/06/texas-deer-czar-to-wisconsin-ask-to.html2017 1/8/18 Breeder Deer Uvalde Facility #3 White-tailed Deer M 3.5
2017 1/8/18 Breeder Deer Uvalde Facility #3 White-tailed Deer M 3.5
2017 1/8/18 Breeder Deer Uvalde Facility #3 White-tailed Deer F 6.5
2017 1/8/18 Breeder Deer Uvalde Facility #3 White-tailed Deer F 5.5
2017 1/8/18 Breeder Deer Uvalde Facility #3 White-tailed Deer F 4.5
2017 1/8/18 Breeder Deer Uvalde Facility #3 White-tailed Deer F 4.5
2017 1/8/18 Breeder Deer Uvalde Facility #3 White-tailed Deer F 8.5
2017 1/8/18 Breeder Deer Uvalde Facility #3 White-tailed Deer F 3.5
2017 1/8/18 Breeder Release Site Uvalde Facility #3 White-tailed Deer F 5.5
2017 1/8/18 Breeder Release Site Uvalde Facility #3 White-tailed Deer F 4.5
expand the link below once there to get all the figures...
tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/diseases/cwd/tracking/WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2018
TEXAS CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CWD TSE PRION MOUNTING, JUMPS TO 79 CASES TO DATE
chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2018/01/texas-chronic-wasting-disease-cwd-tse.htmlFRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2018
WISCONSIN REPORTS 588 CWD TSE PRION POSITIVE CASES FOR 2017 WITH 4170 CASES CONFIRMED TO DATE
chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2018/01/wisconsin-reports-588-cwd-tse-prion.htmlTUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2018
Colorado Chronic Wasting Disease CWD TSE Prion 7/2015-6/2016 Results (2017?)
chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2018/01/colorado-chronic-wasting-disease-cwd.htmlTUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2018
Chronic Wasting Disease A Time Bomb For Agriculture?
WOW, i am shocked, this came from the PORK farm journal...nice article!
chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2018/01/chronic-wasting-disease-time-bomb-for.htmlTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2017
CDC Now Recommends Strongly consider having the deer or elk tested for CWD before you eat the meat
chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2017/09/cdc-now-recommends-strongly-consider.htmlSATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 2018
CDC CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CWD TSE PRION UPDATE REPORT USA JANUARY 2018
chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2018/01/cdc-chronic-wasting-disease-cwd-tse.htmlkind regards, terry
