Big Time Texas Hunt Winners Announced
AUSTIN, Texas — Danny Bennett’s hunting season calendar just got filled. That’s because the Victoria hunter became this year’s lucky winner of the Big Time Texas Hunts Grand Slam.
TPWD News Releases
Dec. 4, 2006
Scoping Meetings Set for Proposed Saltwater Fishing Regulation Changes
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Coastal Fisheries division will host five scoping meetings the first and second weeks of January to discuss proposed changes to saltwater fishing regulations in 2007.
Nov. 28, 2006
Texas State Railroad Funded Through August 2007
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas State Railroad State Park will continue operating through Aug. 31, 2007, although the historic train’s long-term future is tied to the broader issue of state funding for parks to be resolved in the upcoming legislative session.
Nov. 20, 2006
Texas State Parks Gearing Up for Christmas Events
AUSTIN, Texas — Santa Claus forsakes his reindeer-pulled sleigh in favor of an aerial tramway in El Paso and a Texas State Railroad steam train in Palestine in just a couple of the unusual twists to holiday season celebrations in state parks throughout Texas.
Annual Winter Trout Stocking Begins Nov. 30
AUSTIN, Texas — For an inexpensive, entry-level fishing experience the entire family can enjoy, it doesn’t get much easier than winter rainbow trout fishing in Texas.
Humanities Texas Awards Grant for New Deal Web Project
AUSTIN, Texas — Humanities Texas has awarded Texas Parks and Wildlife Department a grant of $10,000 to support the development of an online education center exploring the history of Texas in the 1930s and 1940s.
Nov. 13, 2006
Improved Red Tide Response Tracks Decline of Texas Bloom
AUSTIN, Texas — A red tide event that lingered along the coastal bend for nearly a month appears to have largely subsided, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife officials.
Wildlife Conservationists Partner To Restore Bald Eagle Nest
FORT WORTH, Texas — Wednesday, a bald eagle nest located in the northern Texas Panhandle received a much needed restoration thanks to a statewide partnership of university and state wildlife experts and zoos. The group partnered to build an artificial nest and perch for a pair of bald eagles that has made the area home for the past several years. Biologists feared that if the nest was not restored, the eagle pair, which mates for life, would lose this nesting habitat.
Texas, DU Mark 20 Years of Waterfowl Conservation
SASKATCHEWAN, Canada — On an early Autumn day in September 2003, the sky was a beautiful clear blue above the red-gold landscape and the ducks were calling on a wetland-splashed patch of rolling prairie in central Canada. It’s a place that illustrates the connections between Canada and Texas, between good habitat and good hunting, one fruit of a success story fueled by hunter dollars that goes back two decades.
Coastal Expos Set for Killeen, Kingsville, Victoria, Valley
KILLEEN, Texas — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will host five upcoming Coastal Expos for the public, starting with events in Killeen Nov. 10–11 and Kingsville Nov. 16–18. Similar expos will take place Feb. 3 in Victoria, Feb. 10 in Harlingen and Feb. 22–24 in Edinburg.