Flood Impact Alert
As floodwaters recede across the state, conditions remain dynamic. Learn about the impact of flooding on state parks, wildlife and lost vessels.
UNDATED — With the arrival of National Safe Boating Week (May 21-27), Boating While Intoxicated arrests are up statewide. Statewide, there were 193 BWI arrests in 2003 and in 2004, there were 279.
HOUSTON — As Texas residents expand their homes and businesses into alligator country, encounters between these normally shy reptiles and humans are increasing. And late spring through summer is alligator mating and nesting season, when gators are more likely to be visible.
AUSTIN, Texas — Fourteen chapters of the Texas Master Naturalist program will be conducting fall training classes for volunteers who want to help conserve natural resources.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — The Richards Ranch in Jack County west of here has been named this year’s statewide Lone Star Land Steward by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Stonewall, Texas — Since 1975, the staff at the Sauer-Beckman Living History Farm has been living in the early 1900s. From the ladies who sew their dresses and put up 300 jars of vegetables and fruits a year, to the men who wear leather suspenders and shear the sheep, the staff of four spends nearly every day of the year living and working in the past.
AUSTIN, Texas — A team that finished last nine years ago stormed back to win the weeklong competition in this year's 9th Annual Great Texas Birding Classic, which has announced a list of habitat conservation projects selected by winning teams.
UVALDE, Texas — This month a team of scientists from Boston University, University of Tennessee, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will return to the Winter Garden agricultural production area near here for the second year of a five-year research project funded by a $2.4 million National Science Foundation grant.
ATHENS, Texas — James Parker, III, of Malakoff near here, was inducted into the International Hunter Education Association Hall of Fame at the IHEA Annual Conference recently held in Las Vegas.
AUSTIN, Texas — Sixteen grants totaling more than $400,000 have been awarded to fund camping and outdoor environmental education camps that target underserved populations and their families.