The Hill Country Alliance, Texas Tech University’s Department of Natural Resources Management, Bandera County River Authority and Groundwater District and other partners recently launched the 2021 Axis Deer Control Project and are encouraging landowners and hunters to participate.
Axis deer, an exotic species introduced from India to the Texas Hill Country in the 1930s, have proliferated in several portions of the Hill Country, adversely impacting agricultural production, native wildlife and creek-side, habitat.
According to a press release, Axis Deer Control Project intends to raise awareness about the impacts of free-ranging Axis deer, recognize land stewards for their efforts to control them and ...