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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)
No plant has been more enjoyable in The Garden Guy’s trials than the Forged in Fire heliopsis or false sunflower. There have been a lot of varieties in recent years, but I am going to have to put this one on the must-have list.
Botanically speaking it is Heliopsis helioanthoides, native to the United States. Despite being native to 42 states, many new varieties, award winners and press coverage notwithstanding, it has not been an easy plant to find at the garden center.
Most likely you have never said, “Let’s go to the garden center and pick up a flat of false sunflowers.
Read the full Garden Guy column in today’s Bowie News.
As a card-carrying member of the Sons of the Republic of Texas, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the Shadowland Giant Lone Star hosta.
Make no mistake, I don’t believe this hosta was discovered in the shady soil under a Texas Madrone in Guadalupe National Park. It was actually a sport or morphological change in s hosta named Key West. That sounds like a fairy tale story all its own.
But Shadowland Giant Lone Star has winner written all over it. It is large and has thick leaves. When 12 straight days of rain brought out a rainforest of slugs and other forest floor creatures, the bane of hosta growers everywhere, it didn’t load up with holes but simply got more beautiful.
Read the full Garden Guy column in Thursday’s Bowie News.
Supertunia Mini Vista Pink Cloud petunia is having its debut year or thanks to Susan Middleton Turner in south Georgia’s zone 9 Miller County it’s breakout year.
Susan’s house looks quite like a movie set, and you would have to think that Supertunia Mini Vista petunias play a prominent role.
Last year it was the award-winning Supertunia Mini Vista Indigo that dazzled with incredible color. The petunias were planted in banister baskets across the front of the house. I featured her photos in an article I wrote about Mini Vista petunias.
Read the full Garden Guy column in your Thursday Bowie News.
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