Texas is unrivaled in lands and waterways filled with game birds and game animals, offering a wealth of outdoors opportunities.
However, with the good also comes the bad – and even the ugly.
We’re infested with invasives of all shapes, sizes, demeanors and hues, some of them much closer than you...
The overall annual waterfowl count isn't as high in previous years, but is still well above its long-term average, which means big things for duck hunters this fall.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Canadian Wildlife Service recently completed their annual waterfowl population surveys on the breeding grounds to...
UPDATE: Texas State Parks to close to public amid COVID-19 pandemic.Â
Outdoor-related activities remain an encouraged part of life amid the COVID-19 pandemic, provided Texans maintain social distancing rules issued by state and local officials. However, if you are or planned to get outdoors in the Texas State Parks system...
KROOKED RIVER RANCH, SHACKELFORD COUNTY -- "Tell me and I will forget, show me and I will remember, involve me and I will understand."
With that motto in mind, the weary, ragged-out cadets stepped in unison along the dusty, sun-scorched road, barking out memorized cadences on cue. They had been...
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 Texas Parks and Wildlife Department hasn't found new positive evidence of chronic wasting disease in far West Texas, the agency has reported.
Nearly 300 tissue samples were collected from hunter harvested deer and elk from the Trans-Pecos region during the 2013-14 season to test for CWD, and during the...
Now that more fall hunting seasons are rapidly approaching, it's time to ante up for another 12 month of hunting opportunities across the Lone Star State.
And as always, Texas habitat conservation organizations greatly thank you and urge you to again remember that 100% of revenue from license sales goes...
Hunting season is almost here, and for about 400,000 dove hunters, this time of year brings about a kick-start to fall seasons that will last through the New Year.
And anticipation is flying higher than in previous years.
Dove season in the north and central zones begins Sept. 1 and runs...
The heavy, chocolate-colored antlers of the high-racked whitetail buck poked through the fingers of the wispy, overgrown shinery between a pair of ancient oak trees as it stopped to check the air, providing a peek through 10-power binoculars.
Upon inspection, the animal was the embodiment of a perfect specimen for...
Biologists, landowners and especially waterfowl hunters always eagerly anticipate the annual duck population survey released each August by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Canadian Wildlife Service, hoping that waterfowl counts remain above board.
This year's annual survey, released Monday, estimates the breeding duck population at 38.9 million, about...