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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ATHENS—Families will be fanning out across North Central Texas this summer in search of outdoor adventures as part of Nature Challenge 2010.
BASTROP – Texans of all ages can explore the Lost Pines region as Bastrop County and eight other organizations join state and local parks and other sites across Texas to celebrate National Trails Day on June 5.
AUSTIN — Former Gov. William P. Clements has donated $1 million toward the planned second phase of the new Texas Game Warden Training Center in rural Hamilton County, bringing to $3 million his total contribution to the project.
AUSTIN — The recently completed first phase of the new Texas Game Warden Training Center in rural Hamilton County will be dedicated in ceremonies set for 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.