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April 17, 2006

TPWD Releases First Flounder Fingerlings

ROCKPORT, Texas — When two years of careful work went down the drain April 4, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department coastal fisheries workers quietly cheered.

Texas Rivers Center Progress Hailed in San Marcos

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Texas State University and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department are inviting partners and news media to attend an April 26 grand reopening event to mark completion of $3.1 million in renovations to create a major educational and research facility devoted to Texas springs and aquifers and the river watersheds that feed them, as well as the lakes, bays and estuaries into which they flow.

April 10, 2006

TPWD Adds 40 Counties to Special Buck Harvest Rules

AUSTIN, Texas — Deer hunters in 40 counties in East and Central Texas will be under new special buck harvest regulations this fall as part of changes to this year’s hunting and fishing regulations adopted by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission.

Once-Maligned Carp Coming On as Coveted Catch

AUSTIN, Texas — Pity the lowly carp no more.

Coastal Forecast Offers Few Excuses for Not Catching Fish

AUSTIN, Texas — Coastal fisheries biologists say conditions are looking good for coastal anglers looking to hook their limit of red drum, black drum, spotted sea trout, and even an exotic visitor to coastal waters, the mangrove snapper.

Prop 8 Funds Set for Rita Repairs, State Park & WMA Projects

AUSTIN, Texas — About $18 million in bond funding for critical repairs to Texas state parks, wildlife management areas, fish hatcheries has been approved, the latest installment of about $101 million in Proposition 8 bond funding approved by Texas voters in 2001.

Bragg Named NWTF Wildlife Officer of the Year

AUSTIN, Texas — Brian Heath Bragg, a six-year veteran Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Game Warden, has been named 2005 Texas Wildlife Officer of the Year by the Texas State Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation.

April 6, 2006

Mitigation Agreement To Benefit Wildlife, Highways

AUSTIN — Texas transportation and wildlife officials today announced an agreement to increase large-scale wildlife habitat protection while also facilitating new highway projects.

April 3, 2006

Woodlands Angler Sets New Black Drum Records on Fly

PORT O’CONNER, Texas — A fly fisherman from The Woodlands broke a 4-year-old black drum record here March 8. Stan Nabozny caught a 38.5-inch, 29.75 pound fish on a crab fly tied by Port O’Conner guide Tom Horbey.

Drought Affects Backyard Wildlife

AUSTIN, Texas — Dry gardens. Wildfires. Low reservoirs. These are all examples of how the drought is affecting Texas this year. State wildlife biologists say there is something land managers and gardeners can do to offset the drought’s impact.