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Feb. 5, 2014

Texas State Parks Announce Spring Camping Workshops for Houston Families

HOUSTON – Texas Outdoor Family, a Texas State Park family camping program, will host spring and summer family camping workshops at Brazos Bend, Huntsville and Galveston Island state parks to teach families the basics of camping and enjoying the great outdoors.

Fly Fish Texas March 8 at Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center

ATHENS—Learn to tie a fly, cast a fly and catch a fish all in one day during the annual Fly Fish Texas event at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center March 8.

Feb. 3, 2014

Rowlett Angler Catches Latest Toyota ShareLunker

ATHENS—Lake Palestine produced its second Toyota ShareLunker in less than a year Saturday when Casey Laughlin of Rowlett pulled in a 13.22-pound bass while fishing a Media Bass tournament.

Jan. 30, 2014

Lake Livingston State Park Piloting New Campsite Reservation System

LIVINGSTON – Campers planning to visit Lake Livingston State Park in the Pineywoods can now select a specific campsite while making reservation under a one-year pilot program introduced recently. The site-specific reservations policy is unprecedented in the Texas State Park system, which has always operated on a first-come, first-served basis when securing a campsite.

Bike the Trails in Texas State Parks this February

AUSTIN— February offers an ideal time to pack up your bike and explore hundreds of miles of trails that wind through Texas State Parks. The parks’ safe and scenic environments offer both easy and challenging rides hugging lake shores, beneath towering pines, through rolling hills and along mountain trails open to exploration any day of the week.

Learn Fly-Fishing at Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center

ATHENS— The Dallas Fly Fishers will teach morning and afternoon classes for beginning fly-fishers at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center’s (TFFC) Fly Fish Pavilion on Saturday, March 8th.

Jan. 27, 2014

Lake Athens Produces Another Toyota ShareLunker

ATHENS—Rip van Winkle slept for 20 years. Lake Athens snoozed for 25. Then the 1,799-acre lake near the East Texas town of the same name awoke from its slumber and began spitting out 13-pound bass.

Jan. 21, 2014

Tree Planting Slated for San Jacinto Battleground Prairie

LAPORTE – Volunteers from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Shell Oil Co. and Apache Corporation on Feb. 6 will be planting almost 300 trees at San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site as part of an ongoing prairie restoration project.

Jan. 13, 2014

Lake Fork Does It Again: Third Toyota ShareLunker of Season

ATHENS—Lake Fork produced its third Toyota ShareLunker of the season Sunday night.

Jan. 9, 2014

Texas State History Museum to Host Battleship TEXAS Exhibit

AUSTIN – The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department exhibit, “The Last of the Dreadnought Battleships,” will open on Feb. 1 at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum and run through April 13. The exhibit pays homage to the Battleship TEXAS, which was commissioned 100 years ago.