The Coast Guard has released its most recent national recreational boating survey, which examines data to help prevent boating accidents and assess the economic impact of boating by region.
The study found that about 29 percent, or 34.2 million, of the estimated 116.7 million U.S. households had at least one...
The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department plans to prohibit permanent duck blinds on the Caddo Lake Wildlife Management Area, effective during the 2015-16 waterfowl season to resolve what the agency has said are "public use conflicts" and "natural resource issues."
A public meeting outlining the decision is scheduled for 6:30...
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...
As boaters head out to Texas waterways for the Fourth of July holiday, Texas game wardens and thousands of law enforcement officers will be on heightened alert looking for those violating boating under the influence laws.
These efforts to crack down on impaired boaters will continue July 5-7 during the...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission on Thursday approved a 2014 budget that includes increased funding for state parks and added personnel, something that even a year ago seemed unlikely.
The Parks and Wildlife Department’s fiscal year 2014 operating and capital budget totals about $380 million, including about $272 million...
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...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s chronic wasting disease management plan includes protocols and requirements to prevent the spread of the disease, including mandatory check stations for mule deer killed inside a West Texas containment zone.
That zone includes portions of Hudspeth, Culberson and El Paso counties.
The plan was implemented...
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...
Nearly 300 tissue samples were collected from hunter harvested mule deer from the Trans Pecos ecoregion of far West Texas during the 2012-13 season for Chronic Wasting Disease testing.
Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory and National Veterinary Services Laboratories confirmed CWD in four of those samples, according to a...
U.S. commercial anglers landed 9.6 billion pounds of fish and shellfish in 2012 valued at $5.1 billion, according to Fisheries of the United States 2012, an annual report released by NOAA.
The value and pounds of fish and shellfish caught remain higher than the average for the previous 10 years...