The United States Geological Survey has confirmed that Lewisville Lake was found to harbor zebra mussels, making it the third lake in Texas, and the second within the Trinity River basin, where the invasive species has been discovered.
Christopher Churchill, a USGS biologist who has monitored for the mussels in...
Beachgoers along the Gulf Coast, including along Texas' Padre Island National Seashore and its bays and estuaries, are urged to be mindful of the many beach-nesting birds that will be tending to young birds and perhaps a few remaining eggs this time of year.
"People visiting the beaches are often...
Compiled from recent Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforcement reports.
Drifting Away: Two Val Verde County game wardens responded to a distress call involving a small child trapped in a drifting boat. The boat had drifted into the middle of Amistad International Reservoir with a 7-year-old child, and the...
The latest in quail research, aided in large part by a number of Texas organizations, is now available in a 386-page volume, "Quail VII: Proceedings of the Seventh National Quail Symposium."
Quail VII content is diverse, containing more than 80 papers and abstracts with 27 state and federal agencies, universities...
Participation in outdoor recreation reached a six-year high in 2012 with nearly half of Americans 6 and older taking part in at least one of the 43 outdoor activities included in the report.
The percentage equates to 141.9 million American outdoor participants, reflecting an increase of nearly a million people...
A $10,000 reward is now being offered for information leading to an arrest of the person who shot and killed a whooping crane in Red River Parish, northeast of Toledo Bend Reservoir and the Texas border.
LDWF's Operation Game Thief program, the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Foundation and the USFWS...
A week after a ruling striking down an emergency rule that gave NOAA Fisheries the authority to adjust red snapper seasons off each Gulf state based on whether their state-water seasons and bag limits were consistent with federal regulations, we now have an answer on this year's framework: a...
A federal judge in Brownsville has ruled in favor of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries in a joint lawsuit brought by the agencies challenging an emergency regulation enacted by the National Marine Fisheries Service over red snapper seasons.
The ruling means...
Proposed changes to the state’s hunter education certification program would streamline the process for the tens of thousands who take the course annually, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials said.
Anyone born after Sept. 1, 1971, must successfully complete a Hunter Education Training Course to hunt in Texas. Hunters can...
NOAA Fisheries has announced a final rule for Gulf of Mexico red snapper, which sets quotas for commercial and recreational harvest.
The red snapper quota will increase from 8.08 million pounds to 8.46Â million pounds whole weight for 2013 seasons, with recreational anglers getting 4.145 million pounds, 49 percent of the...