From Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforcement reports
Your Lie Just Croaked
Two Tarrant County game wardens were checking a field on opening day when they found two men sitting around a stock tank with shotguns and a moving dove decoy set out. The father-son duo was contacted by the...
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...
Ducks Unlimited recently announced that it has reached a conservation milestone with more than 13 million acres of habitat conserved in North America.
"Coming on the heels of DU's 75th anniversary year, this milestone is a fitting tribute to the hard work of each and every member, volunteer and staff...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is taking public comment on reauthorizing the practice of using tracking dogs to trail wounded deer, which has been prohibited in a dozen eastern counties for more than 20 years.
A series of public meetings is slated to provide details of the proposal and...
This year's Texas red snapper fishing season is all about the good and the bad, hopefully without more ugly in what has become a contentious topic.
The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department has announced that the private recreational angler snapper season in federal waters off the Texas Gulf Coast will...
The President's fiscal year 2014 discretionary budget request provides $1.6 billion for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an increase of $76.4 million over the 2012 enacted level, to fund the agency's high priority needs. The budget also includes approximately $1.2 billion available under permanent appropriations, most of which...
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents arrested a Port Sulphur man for attempted first-degree murder of na LDWF agent, aggravated assault, resisting an officer, public intimidation and taking oysters from a polluted area Tuesday.
Agents arrested Jonathan K. Ragas, 50, at his home in Port Sulphur and...
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 Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission approved an experimental pronghorn buck season in some areas of the Panhandle, which would allow landowners to control the harvest of buck pronghorn antelope.
In addition, an extension to the existing mule deer managed lands deer permits season will be part of changes to...
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department reports shed more light on the circumstances surrounding Worthy D. Wiles III, of Dallas, who recently pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act after he shot and killed a juvenile whooping crane.
Wiles was with three other hunters when he...