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Now that deer season is nearly over, it’s time to pursue another yearly tradition -- hunting through the freezer. For most Texas hunters, pursuing deer and other game is a two-pronged excursion. It’s about building memories and enjoying the company of others in the field while also providing for the...
The executive director of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has signed an emergency order adding the West Fork of the Trinity River including Bridgeport, Eagle Mountain and Worth lakes to the list of water bodies under special regulations intended to help control the spread of invasive zebra mussels. Carter...
Compiled from recent Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforcement reports. Drifting Away: Two Val Verde County game wardens responded to a distress call involving a small child trapped in a drifting boat. The boat had drifted into the middle of Amistad International Reservoir with a 7-year-old child, and the...
Coast Guard crews helped rescue a pair of people during the weekend, including a teenage female angler who suffered a seizure south of Port Mansfield. Crews were called at about 8 Saturday morning by the father of the 17-year-old girl, after they were fishing about eight miles south of Port Mansfield....
The 2019 red snapper season for federal waters off the Texas coast is set to be longer than it has been in a decade, beginning June 1 and running 97 days. The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department and the National Marine Fisheries Service entered into an agreement in April 2018,...
Ahead of this weekend's youth-only dates for spring Rio Grande turkey hunting in South Texas, the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department is offering its annual forecast. Long story short, biologists and turkey hunting experts from the state agency urge that "conditions are shaping up for a productive nesting season, which could also make...
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals last week reversed a lower court decision that mandated freshwater inflows to whooping crane habitat on the Texas coast. The three-judge panel held that legal aspects of the Endangered Species Act were misapplied in the lower court decision, when it found that the...
Two Illinois men were arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the shooting of a game warden in northeast Texas on Sunday. Eli Stephens, 18, and Dalton Haddix, 21, were arrested on suspicion of the second-degree felony, while  Haddix also faces a charge of failure to...
The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council voted to adopt a plan outlining ecological and financial recovery efforts for the Gulf region in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. "Initial Comprehensive Plan: Restoring the Gulf Coast's Ecosystem and Economy" establishes generally the types of projects to be targeted...
A draft plan proposes $627 million in early restoration projects across Gulf states in connection with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, including five Texas projects  to compensate for lost recreational use of natural resources. The Texas projects in the Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustees plan total about $18.4 million, according...