Hunters, landowners critical to monitoring New World screwworm

  • EXPERTS ACROSS the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and other agencies stress the important role of hunters and landowners in monitoring for New World screwworm sightings as the fall hunting season approaches. Photo courtesy of Michael Miller/ Texas A&M AgriLife
    EXPERTS ACROSS the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and other agencies stress the important role of hunters and landowners in monitoring for New World screwworm sightings as the fall hunting season approaches. Photo courtesy of Michael Miller/ Texas A&M AgriLife

    With the lingering threat of New World screwworm advancement, attendees of the recent Coastal Bend White-tailed Deer Symposium were provided with information and resources needed to help monitor the threat.

    More than 100 landowners and wildlife managers came together to learn more about emerging issues in wildlife management and new techniques to enhance white-tailed deer herds at the Coastal Bend …