San Jacinto Day Festival, Battle Re-Enactment Will Be April 23
LA PORTE, Texas – The San Jacinto Day Festival will be held April 23 to celebrate the 169th anniversary of the battle that earned Texas’ independence from Mexico in 1836.
TPWD News Releases
April 4, 2005
Experienced Anglers Sought for Coastal Fisheries Bay Team
AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is looking for some skilled anglers to help catch spotted sea trout and flounder for its hatchery breeding program. Rough work, but someone’s got to do it, and TPWD is dangling some nice bait—one angler at each of four special tournaments coming up on the Texas coast will win a lifetime fishing license.
‘Texas State Parks Pass’ Popularity Grows As It Enters Second Year
AUSTIN, Texas— Campers, anglers, cyclists, hikers and other state park users are snapping up the new $60 Texas State Parks Pass in growing numbers as the busy spring and early summer seasons beckon folks to the great outdoors.
Funding Sought To Save State Fish of Texas
ATHENS, Texas—When the Texas Legislature named the Guadalupe bass the state fish of Texas in 1989, it did so because of the fish’s distinctive nature. Found nowhere else in the world outside the San Antonio, Guadalupe, Colorado and Brazos river systems, the Guadalupe bass exemplifies the qualities and resources of the Texas Hill Country.
TV Series To Feature State Park Equestrian Trails
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas horses and riders will make a television appearance in July, in a new television series featuring several of Texas’ equestrian trails and facilities.
Love Is in the Water at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center
ATHENS, Texas—If you think all it takes to raise a baby bass is a momma bass, a poppa bass and a cozy pond, you’d be wrong.
TPWD Game Warden Field Notes, April 4, 2005
The following are excerpts from recent Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforcement reports.
TPWD Calendar
The following meetings may be of interest to the public.
March 21, 2005
Man Wins Contest With Alleged Illegally-Taken Buck
WOOD COUNTY, Texas — Billy Ray Herring, 65, of Quitman, could have ended up with three prize rifles, free mounts of his kill, and all the great press he could handle.
Arrests Made in ‘Operation Head Hunter’ Deer Poaching Case
ABILENE, Texas — Two men face multiple felony poaching charges after a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department undercover investigation that spanned two states and 1,100 miles and which involved antlered deer heads being sold via the Internet.