Biologists carry the carcass of a whitetail deer during a deer depopulation at RW Trophy Ranch in Terrell on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. The deer of Williams’s ranch in Hunt County were killed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in order to manage a highly contagious deer-specific disease called chronic wasting disease.
A biologist identifies the brainstem and retropharyngeal lymph nodes on a whitetail deer carcass during a depopulation effort at RW Trophy Ranch in Terrell on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. The tissues are commonly collected to test for Chronic Wasting Disease in deer.
A biologist works on a whitetail deer carcass during a deer depopulation at RW Trophy Ranch in Terrell on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. The deer of Williams’s ranch in Hunt County were killed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in order to manage a highly contagious deer-specific disease called chronic wasting disease.
Ranch owner Robert Williams records the carcasses of his whitetail deer during a deer depopulation at RW Trophy Ranch in Terrell on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. The deer of Williams’s ranch in Hunt County were killed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in order to manage a highly contagious deer-specific disease called chronic wasting disease.
State-hired biologists carry a whitetail deer carcass during a deer depopulation at RW Trophy Ranch in Terrell on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. The deer of Williams’s ranch in Hunt County were killed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in order to manage a highly contagious deer-specific disease called chronic wasting disease.
A blood sample is taken from one of the carcasses of a whitetail deer during a deer depopulation at RW Trophy Ranch in Terrell on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. The deer of Williams’s ranch in Hunt County were killed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in order to manage a highly contagious deer-specific disease called chronic wasting disease.
Boyd Nutt, a local deer breeder, consoles his close friend Robert Williams after Williams saw the dead bodies of his deer after the depopulation commenced at RW Trophy Ranch in Terrell on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. The deer of Williams’s ranch in Hunt County were killed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in order to manage a highly contagious deer-specific disease called chronic wasting disease.
The carcasses of whitetail deer are laid on the floor waiting to be used for research during a deer depopulation at RW Trophy Ranch in Terrell on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. The deer of Williams’s ranch in Hunt County were killed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in order to manage a highly contagious deer-specific disease called chronic wasting disease.
Ranch owner Robert Williams watches as work on the carcasses of his whitetail deer during a deer depopulation at RW Trophy Ranch in Terrell on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. The deer of Williams’s ranch in Hunt County were killed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in order to manage a highly contagious deer-specific disease called chronic wasting disease.
Blood stains the wooden work table where biologists work on the carcasses of whitetail deer during a deer depopulation at RW Trophy Ranch in Terrell on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. The deer of Williams’s ranch in Hunt County were killed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in order to manage a highly contagious deer-specific disease called chronic wasting disease.
