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The Migratory Bird Conservation Commission approved $61.3 million in funding to protect, restore and enhance more than 205,000 acres of wetlands and associated uplands in the United States, Canada and Mexico, including at three Texas national wildlife refuges. The commission approved $54.7 million in grants through the North American Wetlands...
Lake Conroe, north of Houston, has faced a number of invaders as its water levels have dropped. It has been plagued with infestations of exotic vegetation damage to native vegetation by an overpopulation of grass carp introduced to get rid of the exotic vegetation, a degraded watershed, lack of shoreline...
Rattlesnake roundups are tradition in parts of West Texas and South Texas, but the practice of "gassing," forcing the snakes from their dens by pouring noxious or toxic substances inside, would be banned under a proposed amendment to the Parks and Wildlife Code. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is...