UVALDE, Texas — This month a team of scientists from Boston University, University of Tennessee, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will return to the Winter Garden agricultural production area near here for the second year of a five-year research project funded by a $2.4 million National Science Foundation grant.
AUSTIN, Texas – With classes letting out for the summer, many young Texans will turn their attention to schools of a different sort: fish. Some will make the grade by adding their name to the state angling record books.
AUSTIN, Texas — Spring in Texas brings bluebonnets, migration, and the end of hibernation for our warmth-loving species, the reptiles and amphibians of the state. While many amateur naturalists revel in the colorful plant displays and bursts of bird activity in the spring, Texas Parks and Wildlife is asking citizens to be on the lookout for our lesser known cold-blooded wildlife species-species whose trends may be important indicators of changes in our environment.
ATHENS, Texas — James Parker, III, of Malakoff near here, was inducted into the International Hunter Education Association Hall of Fame at the IHEA Annual Conference recently held in Las Vegas.
AUSTIN, Texas — Horned lizards in my hometown? Where!?!-this is the very question that Kimberly Robinson and K.J. Parker, along with other curious and creative students have been investigating for the TPWD Hometown Horned Toad Essay Contest. Across the state, students have been interviewing family, friends and other local residents and digging deep into local records to find stories, memories and facts about horned lizards in their hometowns.
AUSTIN, Texas — Sixteen grants totaling more than $400,000 have been awarded to fund camping and outdoor environmental education camps that target underserved populations and their families.
KILLEEN, Texas — Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game wardens, in partnership with state and federal homeland security agencies and others, led a terrorism response exercise at TPWD’s Parrie Haynes Ranch south of here May 10-12.
The following are excerpts from recent Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforcement reports.
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AUSTIN - Gov. Rick Perry today announced the appointment of T. Dan Friedkin of Houston and Peter M. Holt of Blanco to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission for terms to expire Feb. 1, 2011. The commission oversees the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.