AUSTIN – This Veterans Day, the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department thanks its more than 250 employees who served in the military, as well as all active and retired military men and women, for their service to our country.
FORT WORTH – On Nov. 1, the Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge (FWNC&R) hosted a community paddle event to officially open the 70th trail in the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Texas Paddling Trail system.
ATHENS—Brian Van Zee of Waco has been named fisheries biologist of the year by the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (SEAFWA).
ATHENS—Master fly-fisher Bob Cappallo of Corsicana will teach fly-fishing for beginners at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens January 9, 2016; January 16, 2016; and February 13, 2016, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Austin – Conditionally Approved Areas TX-6 will be closed to all oyster harvest on Nov. 9 due to low abundance of oysters in these areas.
AUSTIN – The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission at its Thursday public hearing adopted interim rules for captive deer movement requirements to provide the deer breeding industry with continuity and consistency through the 2015-16 hunting season.
AUSTIN— Twelve graduates of the first ever Texas Game Warden Citizen’s Academy were recognized at Thursday’s public meeting of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission.
AUSTIN – At Thursday’s Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission meeting, TPWD Executive Director Carter Smith recognized Game Warden Benny G. Richards Jr. as this year’s recipient of the Shikar-Safari International Wildlife Officer of the Year Award. The award is presented annually by the worldwide conservation organization to one wildlife law enforcement officer in each state.
AUSTIN – At Thursday’s Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission meeting, Texas General Land Office Land Commissioner George P. Bush presented the Oil Spill Prevention and Response Award to Game Warden Sgt. Robert Waggett.
AUSTIN— The mid-October skies in Smithville were cloaked by a thick smoke after a wildfire ignited near Buescher and Bastrop State Parks. Now that the final embers have been extinguished, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department staff has completed initial assessments of the wildfire impacts on park land.