SAN ANTONIO — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission on Aug. 26 approved approximately $3.3 million for 23 National Recreational Trail Grant projects in communities across the state, as well as in 8 state parks and a wildlife management area. Included in the funding amount was $25,000 awarded to Texas 4-H for an All-Terrain-Vehicle safety program.
AUSTIN – The Lone Star State has a lot of land that’s primed for hunting and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is offering outdoors enthusiasts the chance to win several hunts of a lifetime.
KERRVILLE – A new, $1.8 million conference center to be dedicated Aug. 27 at the Kerr Wildlife Management Area will provide Texas Parks and Wildlife Department with a quality venue for presenting habitat management and ecological programs to thousands of landowners, students and researchers.
AUSTIN – The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has scheduled a full slate of Texas Outdoor Family workshops this fall designed to introduce even more families to the ease and joy of camping in one of dozens of Texas state parks.
AUSTIN — Brent Leisure, a 26-year veteran of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, has been named director of Texas State Parks. A regional parks director for almost seven years, Leisure will assume his new duties as leader of the agency’s State Parks Division effective Sept. 1.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will be holding a combination Project WILD/Growing Up WILD workshop in Spanish for the first time in the program’s 24-year history.
Por primera vez en los 24 años de existencia de su programa educativo Proyecto WILD, el taller se ofrecerá totalmente en español por el Departamento de Parques y Vida Silvestre de Texas (TPWD)
AUSTIN — As summer winds down and fall starts to approach, so too does the beginning of hunting season, and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is encouraging hunters who need to take the mandatory hunter education course to start looking for courses in their area.
AUSTIN – Whether for getting two kayak fishermen out of harm’s way during a sniper attack, rescuing motorists stranded in a Christmas Eve blizzard in North Texas or simply for doing an excellent job for the people of Texas, thirty-nine Texas Parks and Wildlife employees, two Department of Public Safety officers and one county sheriff were honored Monday during TPWD’s 6th annual Law Enforcement Division Awards Ceremony.
ATHENS—The 2010-2011 Toyota ShareLunker season start is only six weeks away—hard to believe in this August heat—but the big bass are already biting on Lake Fork.