AUSTIN, Texas — America’s largest free, family-oriented festival of the outdoors celebrates its 15 year anniversary at the Parks and Wildlife Headquarters in Austin on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 7-8. The annual event that began as a tribute to hunting’s role in conservation in 1992 today includes fishing, shooting sports, state parks, Texas history, rock climbing, biking, birding, paddling and many other activities, all free to the public.
AUSTIN, Texas — On the morning of Aug. 24, Texas State Parks Advisory Committee Chairman John Montford will present the committee’s final recommendations regarding state park funding to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission at Texas Parks and Wildlife Department headquarters at 4200 Smith School Road in southeast Austin.
AUSTIN, Texas — Come August, dove hunters become creatures of habit; intently aware of silhouettes on power lines and pastures with bright yellow sunflowers. They track the bird’s swift, erratic flight with imaginary shotguns.
EL PASO, Texas — A workshop to be held Sept. 9 will help West Texas landowners learn more about available tools to manage wildlife habitat and diversify income on smaller properties between two and 2,000 acres.
AUSTIN, Texas — New hunting and fishing licenses for 2006-07 will be available beginning Tuesday, Aug. 15, and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is reminding customers that all current annual hunting and fishing licenses expire on Aug. 31.
AUSTIN, Texas — The Hunter’s Choice experiment option for the Central Flyway gained approval from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and gives Texas waterfowlers more latitude during the entire season in exchange for a reduction to the daily bag limit from six to five birds.
AUSTIN, Texas — New hunting and fishing licenses for 2006-07 will be available beginning Tuesday, Aug. 15, and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is reminding customers that all current annual hunting and fishing licenses expire Aug. 31.
LAPORTE, Texas — Visitors to the San Jacinto Museum of History and Monument can begin riding the elevator to the newly renovated Observation Floor as soon as the end of summer.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The Texas Organization of Wildlife Management Associations (TOWMA) will be holding its biannual conference at the College Station Hilton Aug. 10-12. The focal point of the conference is a two-day Wildlife Management 2006 symposium.
AUSTIN, Texas — In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Sportsstuff, Inc., of Omaha, Nebraska, voluntarily recalled about 19,000 Wego Kite Tubes July 13.