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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Departmentis looking into proposed changes to trout fishing regulations for the Guadalupe River below Canyon Lake Dam and will have a public meeting this month to gauge public comment and reaction. The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Oct. 22 at the McKenna Events Center,...
Hunters will be allowed to use as many as two dogs only to trail a wounded deer in 12 additional counties in East Texas during the 2013-14 deer season under a rule change approved by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission. The rule change does not legalize the use of...
Texas hunting regulations continually are altered and usually expanded to fit biological and access objectives set forth by Texas Parks & Wildlife Department hunting program leaders and biologists, and the proposals currently being considered for 2019-20 are no different. Unlike in previous seasons, there aren't any radical or sweeping changes ...
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...
Thirty counties in North and Central Texas on Sunday were added to regulations requiring that  boats operating on public water be drained after use in the state’s continuing effort to combat the spread of invasive zebra mussels Under the regulations, persons leaving or approaching public water in the affected counties...
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...
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...
The Migratory Bird Conservation Commission has approved the protection, restoration and enhancement of 157,000 acres of migratory bird habitat, including a project at Texas' San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge in Brazoria County. The commission approved the $3.3 million purchases and boundary additions that will add 42,000 acres to the National...
Fisheries biologists with the Texas Parks and Wildlife discovered a resurgence of non-native water hyacinth at Lake Quitman in recent weeks. The plant is a free-floating aquatic plant native to South America. It was introduced into North America in the late 1800s and has been spread around the country through...
Invasive zebra mussels, which negatively impact aquatic ecosystems, have been confirmed in the sixth body of water in Texas: Lake Lavon. Tthe U.S. Geological Survey announced the confirmation, according to a news release. The presence of live zebra mussels or their larvae has now been documented in lakes Texoma, Ray...