Outdoor Kids Adventure Day Offers Free Fun
AUSTIN, Texas — Take a break from the T.V. and get outside.
TPWD News Releases
April 16, 2007
Go Wild Outdoors at San Antonio’s First-Ever WildFest
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — In this day of electronics and virtual reality, it’s known by many that regardless of age, most of us just don’t get outdoors as much as we once did in the “good ol’ days.” WildFest San Antonio, scheduled the first weekend of May, intends to change all that.
Game Warden Field Notes, April 16, 2007
The following are excerpts from recent Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforcement reports.
April 9, 2007
New TPWD Rules Streamline Licenses
AUSTIN, Texas — A series of changes to the state’s hunting and fishing licenses adopted by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission here April 5 eliminates unnecessary redundancy, simplifies complicated temporary permits and clarifies senior and disabled citizen licenses.
TPWD Sets Regional Management Plan for Spotted Seatrout
AUSTIN, Texas — The world-famous spotted seatrout fishery in the Lower Laguna Madre will get an extra measure of protection beginning in September after the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission voted April 5 to lower the bag and possession limit for the species there from 10 to five.
April 2, 2007
Fallen Game Warden a Model of New Breed
AUSTIN, Texas — From the time he was a teenager guiding goose hunters on the Texas coastal prairies, probably even before then, Justin Hurst was subconsciously preparing himself to make a difference in natural resource conservation. Those who knew him say he seemed to approach life with that goal in mind.
Lavaca Bay Restoration Credited to Government-Industry Partnership
AUSTIN, Texas — Federal, state, local community and industry leaders on March 28 celebrated a successful cooperative effort to clean up and restore the Point Comfort/Lavaca Bay Superfund site, located midway between Houston and Corpus Christi.
March 28, 2007
Million Dollar Bass Tourney Comes to Top Texas Lake
LINDALE, Texas — Lake Fork is undisputedly the top largemouth bass lake in Texas, maybe in the world. But until this year it has been notably absent from the national bass fishing tournament schedule due to stringent slot limits.
Coastal Fisheries Bay Team Tournaments Scheduled for 2007
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department kicks-off the 2007 Coastal Fisheries Bay Team program with two events in South Padre Island April 7 and April 21.
March 26, 2007
Golden Alga Responsible for Fish Kill on Pecos River
MENTONE, Texas — Texas Parks and Wildlife Department biologists are reporting a fish kill on the Pecos River in Loving and Reeves Counties upstream of Mentone to an area above 16-Mile Dam.