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OUTDOORS: More CWD cases confirmed
Thirteen new cases of chronic wasting disease were confirmed at a Medina County captive white-tailed deer breeding facility on June 29.
Those were the findings of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Texas Animal Health Commission.
The cases were discovered while conducting an epidemiological investigation on the quarantined facility after a 3½-year-old captive white-tailed doe tested positive for CWD back in April 2016.
The doe was tested due to increased surveillance required by the facility’s TAHC herd plan.
United States Department of Agriculture diagnostic sampling funds were used to conduct the testing – which took place at the National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa.
Of the 33 samples, 13 revealed the presence of CWD.
Agencies will be working closely with the facility owner to develop future testing strategies to assess CWD prevalence in the facility.
With the new cases, 25 total white-tailed deer have confirmed positive for CWD in the state – since June 2015. Read more from this outdoors notebook in the June 6 Bowie News.
State agencies have confirmed 13 more cases of chronic wasting disease in deer. (Courtesy photo by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, used with permission)
The Garden Guy surfed the web and stumbled across a photo you most likely have never seen. It featured three Proven Winners National Plants of the Year in a wonderful combination.
The flowers were the Safari Dusk Jamesbrittenia or South African phlox which is the ‘Annual of the Year.’ The combo also featured Supertunia Hoopla Vivid Orchid the ‘Petunia of the Year’ and Heart to Heart Chinook the ‘Caladium of the Year.’
Read the full story from The Garden Guy in your Thursday Bowie News.
Food is supposed to bring people together.
It sits at the center of our holidays, church potlucks, birthday parties, first dates, family reunions and late-night kitchen conversations. In Texas especially, I feel like feeding people is one of the purest forms of love we know. We celebrate with casseroles, comfort with pies, and gather around smoked meats and shared desserts.
Food is hospitality. Food is belonging.
But for some people, food is also calculation.
Before the appetizers even arrive, some of us are already scanning ingredients, evaluating risk, rehearsing questions, and trying to determine whether asking those questions is about to make everyone at the table uncomfortable.
Read the full feature in On The Table in your Thursday Bowie News.
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