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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Marine Theft Investigations Team, composed of nine game wardens, has recovered more than 100 stolen boats valued at roughly $800,000 during its first year in operation. The Law Enforcement Division team works to combat boat theft, personal watercraft theft and related fraud, focusing on...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is offering the chance to win a lifetime super combo hunting and fishing license — an $1,800 value — for only $5. Entries for the lifetime license drawing can be purchased anywhere licenses are sold, as well as on the TPWD website. Two drawings will...
Texas' state flower, the bluebonnet, has adorned  a conservation license plate that was introduced 12 years ago to help raise funding for state parks. In that time, sales of the plate have generated more than $1.3 million. To reach out to more state park and Texas aficionados, the Texas Parks...
A man faces a slew of charges after Pennsylvania Game Commission officials said he shot and killed a 10-point whitetail buck in a Wal-Mart parking lot in  November using a handgun. Arcangelo Bianco Jr., 40, fired several rounds at the buck from within the Burrell Township store’s parking lot and...
A 24-year-old Baytown man was found guilty of manslaughter and aggravated assault in connection with an alcohol-related boating accident on Memorial Day weekend two years ago. The Chambers County boating crash, which occurred May 27, 2012, in a bayou on Lost Lake, killed Baytown resident Tyler Enderli, 24, and resulted...
A Missouri City man was ordered to pay a $15,000 fine and was placed on three years probation for illegally possessing a bald eagle, which he intended to train for use in falconry. Prosecutors in Corpus Christi said a judge sentenced Sam Mathew, 53, on Monday, according to this Associated...
UPDATE: On March 20, The Texas Parks & Wildlife Commission adopted a suite of changes to this year’s freshwater fishing regulations that includes modifications to the length limits and harvest regulations for largemouth bass, Alabama bass and alligator gar in certain areas. The proposed changes to gar regulations also...
The Texas A&M Institute of Renewable Natural Resources is playing an integral role in a new federal, local and private collaboration dedicated to natural resource sustainability for areas surrounding military installations, according to officials. The institute is assisting the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department...
From Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforcement reports Over the Limit: A Lubbock District captain and a Garza/Lynn County game warden were about to call off their patrol efforts for the day because of heavy rains, when they saw the headlights of an all-terrain vehicle going in to a...
By Michelle Villarreal Leschper and Will Leschper Our boy Blue began his journey as a cast-off. He was part of a litter of Catahoula-Lab mixes that was found underneath a house in South Texas, ultimately ending up in dog jail, with a future that was full of doubt. A family friend...