This might be a good place and time to tell this story. There is a 9,000 acre National wildlife Refuge across the blk top rd from me. And during WW II they built an ammunition plant there. And in 1943 the Texas Parks and Wildlife determined there were no deer in Texas at that time. So they brought in deer from Wisconsin, Illinois along with a few other northern states. They stocked these deer here at the 9,000 acres and stocked another area near San Antonio Texas. These deer were monitored and were used to increase a non existent deer herd in Texas. They did well and in fact there were so many deer from the two herds that Texas deer population grew to an overabundance and where a disease took most all of the Texas deer in 1961. So the Texas Parks and Wildlife reseeded the deer again by importing northern deer to these same two locations. They monitored the deer herd again and in 2008, the Texas Parks and Wildlife stopped the monitoring of these deer. Now known as Texas Deer. This 9,000 acre National Wildlife Refuge is now open a few days a year to deer hunting, mostly a few days of youth hunts and a very few days of public Bow hunting.
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