Wild Communications, LLC/Portsmouth, NH - Popular outdoor personalities Mike and Bonnie McFerrin, Eric Hale and Chris Ward, co-hosts of the hit show Legends of the Fall (LOF), will be chasing trophy whitetails in Illinois, Texas and Virginia throughout October.

Texas Hunters for the Hungry, a program administered by the Texas Association of Community Action Agencies, Inc., has exceeded two million pounds of venison donated over the last 20 years.

The American Deer & Wildlife Alliance (ADWA) is pleased to announce a new partnership with Dr. Deer Inc., the industry’s leading voice for modern deer management. ADWA and Dr. James C. Kroll, known nationally as ‘Dr. Deer,’ will work together to promote the deer industry and increase public awareness for issues relating to deer, hunting and wildlife management.

Legislation that would allow searches of homes of the owners of sporting dog breeders without probable cause, or even a search warrant, is one step closer to becoming law.  House Bill 1451, the so-called “puppy mill” bill introduced by Rep. Senfronia Thompson (D- Houston), has been assigned to the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice.  No hearing dates have been set. 

The Quality Deer Management Association has just released their third annual Whitetail Report.  This report can be a useful resource for biologists, managers, hunters, and industry leaders.

Local, state, and national groups continue to sign on to an effort to defeat a Texas House Bill that could put many sporting dog and hobby breeders out of existence. 

Surely Davy Crockett, Sam Houston and Jim Bowie are rolling over in their graves.  It is hard to believe that these patriots in the fight for a free and independent Texas would ever have foreseen that a legislature full of supposed conservatives would vote to permit warrantless searches of the homes of those folks who might sell a few puppies at the end of their driveway.