About Us
Our mission at Brush Country Wildlife Consulting, LLC is to keep wild places wild, ranchers ranching, and farmers farming by providing individualized, efficient, and effective strategies to combat problems new and old. Anything to do with land, water, and wildlife, especially in Texas, we can help. Whether you’re a new owner or buyer of a ranch but don’t know where to start or you’re a generational heritage rancher, our expertise and has something to offer anyone seeking advice or a second opinion.
Dr. Chase Nunez is a 7th generation Texan with three degrees from the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He is the owner of Brush Country Wildlife Consulting, LLC and specializes in ranch business management, wildlife capture (trapping, darting, drugs, etc.), habitat management, wildlife disease epidemiology. Chase works for and advises multiple HOA/POA for urban wildlife management and mitigation, works as a contract field biologist and wildlife pharmaceutical consultant for Wedgewood Pharmacy (previously Wildlife Pharmaceuticals), is an adjunct professor and wildlife researcher at Texas A&M University’s Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, and manages, advises, and stocks ranches in every ecoregion of Texas and beyond. Chase grew up outdoors and ranching in the Texas hill-country and now he and his wife, Madilyn, own and operate Bar None Livestock and Exotics– their small ranching operation between Seguin and Nixon, Texas. (Full Biography Below).
As a 7th generation Texan with a lifetime of experience around wildlife, ranching, and the associated hardships, Dr. Chase Nunez is a wildlife disease biologist and researcher with age beyond his years. Chase grew up as an avid hunter, fisherman, wildlife enthusiast, and outdoorsman in the Texas Hill-Country of New Braunfels, Texas and frequenting his grandfather’s ranch just north of Uvalde. This innate love for wildlife and wild places drove Chase to devote his life and career to God’s great outdoors.
Personal hunting, ranching, and wildlife management experience from his youth led to a decade of guiding hunts across Texas for white-tailed deer, mule deer, aoudad, axis deer, and dozens of other species of exotics starting at the age of 15. It also lent favor to learning and developing trade skills, especially welding. Throughout high-school, Chase worked part-time for various welding and fabrication companies, becoming proficient in MIG, TIG, and stick welding. Chase used these skills to compete in FFA (Future Farmers of America) Junior Agricultural Mechanics competitions, placing in several major shows including San Antonio, Houston, San Angelo, and Fort Worth with a 17’ aluminum livestock trailer. The leadership learned and the scholarships earned from the trailer project helped Chase to attend the university of his dreams, Texas A&M University (WHOOP!), with the woman of his dreams, Madilyn Nunez, his now wife. Being Texas’ land grant university, the core values and mission of Texas A&M to be first and foremost for the people of Texas sincerely aligns with Chase’s goals and morals. That is primarily why he stuck around College Station for ten years of studies and three degrees.
This time allowed Chase to learn about wildlife health and management through a myriad of lenses from some of the best and most influential veterinarians, wildlife biologists, ecologists, ranchers, researchers, and businessmen the world has to offer. From the rainforests of Costa Rica and Nicaragua to the brush of southern African to the plains of Wyoming, there was no shortage of opportunities for Chase to see global wildlife management perspectives that could be applied or avoided by Texans. It also provided the ample opportunity to help conduct field and lab research on wildlife management and disease issues specifically occurring in Texas. Examples of wildlife research work that Chase aided with includes Avian bornavirus surveillance in waterfowl, Brucellosis surveillance in feral hogs of southeastern Texas, field efficacy of off-label and remote dart-delivered drugs in white-tailed deer (Masters Thesis), disease transmission dynamics of bighorn sheep pneumonia among aoudad and bighorn sheep, field safety and efficacy trials for wildlife capture using novel chemical immobilization drugs in dozens of exotic hoof-stock, and anthrax surveillance and vaccination work in southwestern Texas white-tailed deer, feral hogs, and axis deer (PhD dissertation work). Chase’s involvement in a service-providing lab (Cook Wildlife Lab with Dr. Walt Cook) that was jointly appointed through the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and the Range, Wildlife, and Fisheries Management Department further afforded valuable experience and insight into the politics, issues, hardships, and dilemmas faced by the various wildlife and ranching industries.
Upon final graduation, Dr. Nunez started a ranch and wildlife consulting firm, Brush Country Wildlife Consulting, LLC. The consulting firm specializes in the capture and management of wildlife, urban wildlife issue mitigation, habitat management, livestock and wildlife disease prevention and management, farm/ranch business planning, custom tool and equipment design and fabrication, wildlife research and development, and education for future wildlife professionals. Chase’s goals for Brush Country Wildlife Consulting, LLC are strengthened by his appointment as an adjunct faculty member (professor) at Texas A&M University, a field biologist and representative for Wedgewood Pharmacy (previously ZooPharm/Wildlife Pharmaceuticals), and a small ranch and livestock owner near Seguin, Texas.