The Texas Big Game Awards, in its 24th year, is accepting entries through Feb. 15 in categories including white-tailed deer, mule deer, javelina and pronghorn antelope.
The program is a partnership between the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department and the Texas Wildlife Association recognizing the contributions landowners, land managers and hunters make...
Chronic wasting disease has become a hot-button topic across the country, with more deer coming down with the fatal disease across whitetail hot beds in the Midwest.
However, Texas has yet to see the same effect as other areas, including Wisconsin and Michigan, thanks in large part to the vigilance...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is considering an experimental landowner controlled harvest pronghorn buck season.
Wildlife officials also are proposing an extension of mule deer season under Managed Lands Deer Permits as part of recommended changes to the 2013-14 Statewide Hunting Proclamation, according to a news release.
TPWD staff recommended...
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 Parks and Wildlife Department game wardens seized more than two tons of marijuana worth nearly $4 million last week.
“This is one of if not the largest drug seizure by Texas game wardens in the history of our agency,” said TPWD Law Enforcement Director Craig Hunter, in a news...
Noodling -- the practice of catching catfish with bare hands -- has only been legal in Texas since 2011, but fisheries officials are seeking to catch important data about the pursuit themselves.
The pursuit has hit the mainstream, being featured in numerous reality shows and TV programs, but the Texas...
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...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission on Thursday approved additional options for hunter education certification, including a streamlined, one-day basic course reducing the mandatory hours of classroom instruction from 10 to a maximum of six hours and creating an option for anyone 17 years of age or older to...
Hunters and anglers long have been the greatest conservationists of natural resources and game species while also pumping huge revenues into economies at the state and city levels.
Dove hunting in Texas alone is a more than $300 million industry, according to Texas Parks & Wildlife Department figures, and while...