The eastern turkey population in Texas has faced declines over the years, but thanks to the efforts of the National Wild Turkey Federation and the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, more birds are on the way.
Eastern turkeys from Alabama, Missouri, Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia will be...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is offering the chance to win a lifetime super combo hunting and fishing license — an $1,800 value — for only $5.
Entries for the lifetime license drawing can be purchased anywhere licenses are sold, as well as on the TPWD website.
Two drawings will...
A small, new survey from Southwick Associates shows the influencing factors that lead to purchases by hunters and anglers.
For hunters, "personal experience" was the highest factor at 73.3 percent, with 72.1 percent of anglers agreeing. Also high on the list for hunters at 55.7 percent was "brand loyalty" with...
From Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforcement reports
Too Many to Count
Two Val Verde County game wardens were checking hunting camps when they discovered a hunting party had taken too many deer. To keep up with the growing list of violations, the game wardens resorted to drawing up a...
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...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will disburse $1.1 billion in excise tax revenues paid by sportsmen and sportswomen to state fish and wildlife agencies to fund fish and wildlife conservation and recreation projects, including more than $51 million in Texas.
The Service apportions the funds to all states through...
Three Texas Parks and Wildlife Department employees died Saturday in a helicopter crash while conducting aerial surveys for desert bighorn sheep on the agency's Black Gap Wildlife Management Area in Brewster County.
The men who perished in the accident were Wildlife Biologist Dewey Stockbridge, Fish and Wildlife Technician Brandon White...
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission has adopted a notice of intent that would alter daily limit regulations for channel and blue catfish caught in boundary waters with Texas including Toledo Bend Reservoir, Caddo Lake and the Sabine River. Fisheries biologists from each state recommended the action based on...
The onslaught of invasive zebra mussels -- which can have serious economic and recreational impact to Texas reservoirs -- has caused state officials to approve a number of regulations, the most notable of which takes effect July 1 statewide.
Beginning that day, all boaters must drain all water from their...
Texas game wardens and Williamson County sheriff’s deputies serving a search warrant at a residence over the weekend seized a collection of illegally taken wildlife mounts, a quantity of marijuana and $4,000 in cash.
The search began about 11:30 a.m. Saturday, and a 55-year-old man was taken into custody, according...