PRESIDIO – The man who proved instrumental in helping the State of Texas secure a 212,000-acre West Texas ranch 25 years ago that doubled the size of the Texas State Park System overnight was honored recently at the Big Bend Ranch State Park headquarters.
AUSTIN – Most folks don’t usually look forward to Mondays, but Texas dove hunters will be making an exception this year. The traditional September 1 dove season opening day in the North and Central Zones falls on Labor Day Monday.
AUSTIN – The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is announcing plans to prohibit permanent duck blinds on the Caddo Lake Wildlife Management Area effective the 2015-16 waterfowl season to resolve escalating public use conflicts and natural resource issues. A public meeting outlining the decision and plans for removal of permanent duck blinds is set for 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 2 in the Caddo Lake State Park Group Recreation Hall.
AUSTIN – Duck populations are the highest since North American surveys began in 1955, and as a result Texas will enjoy for the 20th consecutive year the most liberal waterfowl hunting season framework allowable.
HOUSTON — A multi-partner coalition including the Texas Parks and Wildlife (TPW) Foundation today announced the purchase of the 17,351-acre Powderhorn Ranch along the Texas coast in Calhoun County. The acquisition will conserve a spectacular piece of property that is one of the largest remaining tracts of unspoiled coastal prairie in the state. At $37.7 million it is the largest dollar amount ever raised for a conservation land purchase in the state and represents a new partnership model of achieving conservation goals in an era of rapidly rising land prices. In years to come, Powderhorn Ranch is expected to become a state park and wildlife management area.
HOUSTON— Texas game warden Eddie Hood has been recognized as the Texas Officer of the Year by the Association of Midwest Fish and Game Law Enforcement Officers.
HOUSTON— Tim Spice, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Boater Education Coordinator, has been selected as the “State Educator of the Year” as well as the “Southern States’ Educator of the Year.”
HOUSTON — Texas Game Warden John Thorne has been selected as the “State Officer of the Year” and the “Southern States Officer of the Year” by the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators (NASBLA).
STONEWALL – Come get your picture taken with a life-like cutout of the nation’s 36th president and enjoy other festivities commemorating LBJ Day, a state holiday, at Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site on Wednesday, Aug. 27.
AUSTIN – Texas game wardens will conduct their third virtual patrol ride-along via Twitter on Monday, September 1 during the opening day of dove season.