As deer season approaches, Kaufman County hunters need to be aware of a new requirement. Because of the neurological disease in deer found in this region of Texas called Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), hunters who harvest mule deer, whitetailed deer, elk, red deer, or other CWD susceptible species within the Trans-Pecos, Panhandle, and South-Central Texas CWD Containment and Surveillance Zones are REQUIRED to bring their animals to a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) check station within 48 hours of harvest. There will be two check stations for Hunt/Kaufman/Rockwall/ Van Zandt Counties. Dates, times, and locations are listed below.
• A staffed check station is located in Quinlan at 3381 SH 276 West, in the parking lot behind Exxon Gas and More St.
• A 24-hour self-serve drop box is located in Terrell at 1738 N. Frances St. at Gorman’s Meat Market.
Hours for the staffed location in Quinlan are:
• November 6- 28 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekends; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays
• November 29 – January 16 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily
• January 17 – February 28 – call to arrange for deer to be sampled
• Closed on November 25, December 24 (12 p.m.), December 25 (12 p.m.) and January 1. The 24-hour, selfserve drop box in Terrell is available October 2 – February 28, 2022.
NOTE: If bringing a quartered animal and the associated head to a check station, be sure to remove the head from the carcass 2 to 3 vertebrae below the head to ensure that the appropriate tissues for CWD testing are not damaged. For more information, please go to the Texas Parks and Wildlife website: https:// tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/ wild/diseases/cwd/.
Please contact Roger Wolfe, Kaufman County’s local TPWD District Leader at 903-566-1626, Ext. 207, or email him at roger.wolfe@ tpwd.texas.gov with any questions you may have.
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