AUSTIN, Texas — America’s largest free, family-oriented festival of the outdoors takes place Oct. 6-7 at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department headquarters in Austin. The event includes a number of new offerings this year, while bringing back dozens of the popular activities which draw more than 35,000 visitors from across the state each fall.
AUSTIN, Texas — El festival de campismo y actividades al aire libre más grande de Estados Unidos es un evento gratuito para toda la familia que se celebrará el 6 y 7 de octubre en el Departamento de Parques y Vida Silvestre de Texas (TPWD por sus siglas en inglés) en Austin. El evento cuenta con nuevas diversiones y las populares actividades que en años anteriores han atraído a más de 35,000 asistentes.
SAN ANTONIO — Turning Point, San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Texas Wildlife Association and other partners will host the 1st Alamo Extravaganza “Celebration of Choices” Sep. 15 in San Antonio, providing a setting for people with disabilities to experience fishing, climbing, shooting, kayaking and many other outdoor activities.
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is seeking qualified applicants to fill about 200 new employee positions in Texas State Parks. Thanks to recent appropriations by the Texas Legislature, this is the first major infusion of new staffing for state parks in many years.
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department has taken another step to spread the word that “Life’s Better Outside.” On July 25, the award-winning Texas Parks & Wildlife television show began streaming through MyOutdoorTV.com, the world's largest internet video network for outdoor television shows, radio, video, and conservation information.
AUSTIN, Texas — August is usually one of Texas’ hottest months, parching the landscape and shrinking the state’s lake and rivers. This year it is shaping up to be one of the best months for getting outdoors.
QUANAH, TX.—Hank the Cow Dog illustrator Gerald L. Holmes joins 22 local young artists for the annual Summer Art Exhibition at Copper Breaks State Park. The unique theme for this year’s exhibition is “Refrigerator Art.”
PRESIDIO, Texas — Learn how to better capture the grandeur of the Lone Star State’s natural landscapes at a fall digital photography workshop Sept. 14-16 at Big Bend Ranch State Park in far West Texas.
ATHENS, Texas—Clayton Bowen of Eagle Lake won the Art of Conservation Award in Wildlife Forever’s 2007 State-Fish Art Contest, it was announced Saturday at the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bowen’s watercolor on canvas paper of a Guadalupe bass diving into the water will be reproduced as a stamp for sale to collectors; proceeds will be used to fund conservation education and aquatic restoration projects across America.
RUSK, Texas — State park officials have indefinitely suspended all train operations at the Texas State Railroad State Park, following a flood which washed out a section of the train tracks.