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H.C.R. No. 120
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION-
1 WHEREAS, South Texas is on the front line of the battle
2 against the fever tick, *a pest that threatens to inflict
3 catastrophic losses on the beef industry should it continue to
4 spread beyond a permanent quarantine zone established along the Rio
5 Grande in 1943; and
6 WHEREAS, Historically, the fever tick ranged across the
7 entire southeastern United States, reaching as far north as
8 Maryland and Pennsylvania; the tick can carry and transmit at
9 parasite that causes cattle tick fever, which kills up to 90 percent
10 of infected cattle; in 1893, the Texas Animal Health Commission was
11 founded to fight this scourge, and in 1907 the United States
12 Department of Agriculture established the National Cattle Fever
13 Tick Eradication Program; by then, the tick had already caused
14 direct and indirect economic losses estimated to equal more than $1
15 billion in today's dollars; and
16 WHEREAS, The eradication program had successfully contained
17 the fever tick to an 852-square-mile quarantine zone by 1943; the
18 tick was never eliminated in Mexico, however, and personnel from
19 the USDA Tick Force have maintained a high level of vigilance to
20 fight continuous reintroduction; after the pest was detected beyond
21 the zone in 2007, five temporary preventive quarantine areas were
22 established, covering more than one million acres in Starr, Zapata,
23 Jim Hogg, Maverick, Dimmit, and Webb Counties; and
24 WHEREAS, In March 2008, the Texas Department of Agriculture
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Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. 81st Texas Legislature, House Concurrent Resolution, House Bill 120, legislative document, June 19, 2009; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth149068/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.