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Axis Deer: Are they a problem?
In parts of the Texas Hill Country, axis deer now outnumber whitetail — and I dig into why that's a bigger problem than most people realize. I pulled together a controlled removal experiment out of Bandera County, a Texas Tech PhD dissertation, and over two decades of density surveys to show this isn't competition between the species, it's flat-out displacement. Axis deer aren't classified as wildlife or livestock in Texas, which means no season, no bag limit, and no state agency tracking their spread. One county alone is now estimated to hold 61,000 of them. I get into the regulatory gap, a…
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