Deer Management Permits

     The Deer Management Permit (DMP) is a relatively new concept in deer management in

   Texas.  The permit allows you, as the owner of a high-fenced ranch, to temporarily detain

   white-tailed deer in breeding pens located on your property.  Breeding pens may be five (5) 

   to one hundred (100) acres in size and detain up to twenty (20) does and one buck in each

   pen.  This is currently the only situation that allows interaction between wild deer and deer

   belonging to a Scientific Breeder.

     The following types of deer may be held under this permit:

           1.  Wild deer captured on a high fenced property,

           2.  Deer Purchased from a Scientific Breeder that will be liberated on the property at

                the termination of the permit,

          3.  A buck deer from a Scientific Breeding facility that will be temporarily placed into 

               the pen for breeding purposes and then returned to the Breeding facility.

 

     There are two (2) levels of DMP’s. The first allows deer to be detained no longer than 

  ten (10) months. Level 2 allows for detainment for longer than ten (10) months and the 

  option of later releases than in the Level 1 permit.

 

Contact us and see if a Deer Management Permit is right for you.