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Texas deer hunters again are urged to properly dispose of carcasses from deer they shoot to help prevent the spread of infectious diseases, particularly chronic wasting disease, which remains a low-level yet viable threat in far West Texas. Deer can become infected with the disease if they come into contact...

The Guadalupe bass, the state fish of Texas, doesn't grow as large as its cousins, but one Austin angler recently landed one that is set to be a record for the species. The 3.71-pound fish caught from the Colorado River below Austin by angler Bryan Townsend appears to qualify as...

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials have set dates for the 14th annual Texas Abandoned Crab Trap Removal Program, which this year will  Feb. 21 to March 2. The program, in place since 2002, has helped to remove more than 33,000 derelict crab traps hauled from Texas bays. During the...

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...

Texas game wardens have added another tool to their arsenal: a K-9 unit. The first five canine handlers and dogs recently graduated from an eight-week training program located at the Utah Peace Officer Standards and Training canine facility in Salt Lake City. The second wave of canine handlers and dogs...

This year's pronghorn antelope season in the Texas Panhandle, which begins Saturday and runs through Oct. 6, will include an experimental framework that allows landowners to control harvest of buck pronghorn on their properties. The experimental season will be in herd units 8, 17, and 25, which include portions of...

Donnie O'Neal, an avid bass angler from Pflugerville, has a big fish tale that's almost too hard to believe. Good thing he had a picture to prove it. O'Neal was fishing on lunker largemouth hot spot Lake Austin on April 28, hoping to find a 13-pound bass to enter into the...

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials are investigating after a whooping crane was found shot to death in Red River Parish, northeast of Toledo Bend Reservoir and the Texas border. The whooping crane was found and recovered from the bank...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has awarded grants to put $4 million in quail habitat conservation on the ground, using a special appropriation by the state Legislature to help bring back the bobwhite quail. “We chose places where quail are gone, but they haven’t been gone long, kind of...

A juvenile whooping crane was accidentally shot and killed in January  near St. Joseph’s Island in Aransas County,  Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforcement officials said. A fresh water duck hunter out on his first coastal duck hunt Jan. 12 saw a bird he believed was a sandhill crane...