Boone and Crockett Club: Wild, not Domestic

The Boone and Crockett Club today applauded a recent Missouri Supreme Court and their decision that captive deer and elk are to fall under the regulatory authority of the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC). The decision overturns an earlier lower court decision in 2015 that blocked the MDC attempt to regulate…

the transport of captive deer and elk into Missouri. “The MDC originally put the regulations in place as a means of keeping wild Missouri deer and elk safe from Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD),” said Boone and Crockett Club President Ben Hollingsworth Jr. “It was the right decision then and this is the right decision now.