EL PASO, Texas — Rock climbers recently noticed canyon wrens nesting at a popular climbing site at Hueco Tanks State Park and Historic Site. Due to concerns about disturbing the nesting birds, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has temporarily closed Grenade Boulder until hatchlings fledge. It is expected to be closed for about a month.
AUSTIN, Texas — Divers from the Texas Department of Public Safety recovered the body of Jerry King, 72, of Athens from Richland Chambers Reservoir at 9:30 a.m. today. Texas game wardens earlier had identified a return on side-scan sonar that proved to be King.
JACKSBORO, Texas — Come celebrate the 142nd anniversary of the existence of Texas’ northern-most U.S. Army fort during Fort Richardson Days on April 17 and 18, and see what frontier life was like in the 1870s.
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Game Wardens today recovered the body of Jarod David Dawkins, 27, who was missing since the boat he was on capsized March 17 near Sparta Valley Park on Belton Lake. Dawkins’ body was recovered at 9:03 a.m. just north of the water treatment plant near Westcliff Park.
PRESIDIO, Texas — Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine chief photographer Earl Nottingham will join with a top Canon representative to host spring digital photography workshops at Big Bend Ranch State Park. The dates for the four-day workshops are May 17-20 and May 21-24.
LAKE JACKSON, Texas — Sea Center Texas es un acuario marino y centro para la conservación de la naturaleza que incluye un criadero de juveniles de peces marinos. Este criadero de alta tecnología es posiblemente uno de los más grandes del mundo, y produce juveniles de corvina roja y corvina pinta que se utilizan en un programa muy exitoso de repoblación en las costas de Texas. Mantenido por el Departamento de Parques y Vida Silvestre o Texas Parks and Wildlife, el centro solicita la ayuda del público en la selección de los nombres de dos ejemplares muy populares de su fauna marina: un mero australiano y una anguila verde.
ATHENS, Texas—Choke Canyon Reservoir continued its big bass bonanza March 20 with another ShareLunker, a 13.12-pounder caught by Joseph B. Thoman, Jr., of Farmerville, Louisiana.
ATHENS, Texas—Bill Sweeten of Yantis pulled Lake Fork into a tie with Lake Conroe for the most ShareLunkers of the current season when he pulled a 14.43-pound bass from Lake Fork Monday.
ATHENS, Texas—How many times has a lake produced three 15-pound ShareLunkers in a row?
GALVESTON, Texas — Galveston Island State Park, shut down for the last six months due to extensive damage from Hurricane Ike, will welcome day users to the bay side of the coastal park on Saturday, March 21. The beach side of the park, which sustained significant damage, remains closed to the public for facilities demolition and debris removal.