June 8, 2010

Toyota ShareLunker Season Payoff Underway

ATHENS—Anglers who catch Toyota ShareLunkers receive a lot of recognition—ShareLunker clothing, press coverage and a fiberglass replica of their catch—but the program is really about what is happening now.

Toyota ShareLunker 500 Angler Donates Winnings to Make-a-Wish Foundation

ATHENS—A big bass caught from O.H. Ivie Reservoir on April 9 is going to make a dream come true for a child with a life-threatening medical condition.

June 4, 2010

Advisory Panel on Recreational Boating Safety to meet June 18

The Texas Advisory Panel on Recreational Boating Safety will convene at 10 a.m. Friday, June 18 in room E2.036 inside the capitol extension at 1400 Congress Avenue in Austin.

June 3, 2010

The Texas Parks and Wildlife’s Texas Outdoor Family Program Celebrates a Milestone

AUSTIN — The Texas Outdoor Family experience begun in fall 2008 will soon be sharing an outdoor adventure with their 1000th family. To celebrate the milestone, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is releasing a new schedule of dates for the coming cooler season.

May 27, 2010

TPWD Extends Redfish Bay Seagrass Protection

AUSTIN — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) extended indefinitely the protection of seagrass within the Redfish Bay State Scientific Area (RBSSA) by a vote taken during Thursday’s Commission meeting. This ruling removes the termination date of the state scientific area designation and thus extends the “no uprooting seagrass with a boat propeller” law in the area.

May 21, 2010

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Hunter Education Instructors Needed

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) will be conducting a free Hunter Education New Instructor Training Workshop June 19, 2010, in Waco. Workshop will run from 8:00 a.m.  to 5:00 p.m. at the Bledsoe-Miller Community Center located at 300 MLK Blvd.

Life’s Better Outside® Experience Comes to AlleyFest June 5-6

LONGVIEW – For the first time, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is bringing its Life’s Better Outside® Experience to this year’s AlleyFest in Longview June 5-6. Visitors of all ages will be able to see and try various outdoor activities, including fishing, archery, and rock climbing.

May 18, 2010

Boating deaths decline in Texas, safety advocates want to keep it that way

AUSTIN — Deaths from boating accidents on Texas public waters decreased last year compared with the year before and Texas game wardens, boater education proponents and others hope to keep the numbers trending downward. The decrease in 2009 came after an unprecedented spike in boating accident deaths in 2008, the highest in more than ten years.

May 17, 2010

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Hunter Education Instructors Needed

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) will be conducting a free hunter education new instructor training workshop on Saturday, June 19th, at Elm Fork Shooting Sports, 10751 Luna Rd., in Dallas. The workshop will run from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center to be Part of Nature Challenge 2010

ATHENS—Families will be fanning out across North Central Texas this summer in search of outdoor adventures as part of Nature Challenge 2010.