COMSTOCK – Fragile and fading rock art painted thousands of years ago in rock shelters and caves by indigenous peoples at Seminole Canyon State Historic Site will soon benefit from the latest in laser technology.
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Parks and Wildlife Department inland fisheries biologists today completed the first stocking of Guadalupe bass in the South Llano River. The release of fish here marks a new chapter in a decades-long effort to save the state fish of Texas. It’s also the first, prototype effort of a new watershed scale approach to water resource conservation in Texas.
EL PASO — A mountain lion that authorities first had tried to tranquilize led law enforcement officers, a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game warden captain and city animal control officers on a wild chase through central El Paso that ended with the animal being shot and killed.
ATHENS—An old saying—“It’s an ill wind that blows no one good”—points out that there are two sides to almost everything. Bow fishers are finding that despite an extensive fish kill at Lake Fairfield in August, 2010, that devastated the largemouth bass, catfish and red drum fisheries, there are still recreational angling opportunities to be had.
ATHENS—Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) Inland Fisheries biologists will host a meeting at 7:00 p.m. May 19 in the Legends Building of the Bowie Community Center to report on the status of the fishery in Lake Amon G. Carter.
AUSTIN — The Gulf of Mexico commercial shrimp season for both state and federal waters will close 30 minutes after sunset on Sunday, May 15 until an unspecified time in July.
ATHENS—David L. Campbell, a 45-year employee of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Inland Fisheries Division, will be inducted into the Texas Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame at a banquet June 4 in Athens.
AUSTIN, Texas — Can people in cities and wildlife coexist? Must urbanization mean the decline of biodiversity? Those are among the questions that will be on the minds of more than 250 attendees from across the U.S.A and eight foreign nations at the international Urban Wildlife Management and Planning Conference to be held May 22-25 in Austin.
ATHENS—Las Huellas Fishing Kids and the City of Brownsville will attempt to set a record for the world’s biggest fishing tournament on Saturday, May 21.
Tapping what has become a global network of ongoing geocache events, Texas State Parks is hosting a statewide Texas Geocache Challenge on Saturday, June 4, with 89 state park locations (dividing the state into eight regions) scheduled to participate as host sites.