2015

The owner of an Andrews, Texas, car dealership is offering an incentive to purchase a vehicle from his car lot: A free gun. Strate Colbath, General Manager for Benny Boyd Car Dealership, explained to News West 9, “For every new

A fisherman spearing off the coast of Florida who was confronted by a great white shark has released footage of the terrifying moment, which he couldn’t help but catch on camera. Zack Spurlock was trying to catch lionfish around 25

TEMPLE, Texas – A Texas Game Warden investigation sparked by social media posts on Facebook detailing the killing of an 11-foot alligator has resulted in the arrests of two Killeen men. Texas Game Wardens today arrested Bradley Gillis, 26, and

A bill to approve year-round hunting season on wild hogs passed out of a House committee Wednesday. The bill is authored by Monroe Representative Katrina Jackson.  Jackson says the feral hog issue is becoming more pervasive for northeast Louisiana farmers.

AUSTIN — A self-proclaimed “East Texas river rat” with Harvard undergraduate and medical degrees whose lifelong love of bottomland hardwood country ignited landscape conservation along the Trinity River Basin, Dr. Robert McFarlane is the 2015 recipient of the Leopold Conservation

AUSTIN—Summer boating season is just around the corner and a coalition led by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is launching a major public awareness campaign to inform boaters about how to prevent invasive zebra mussels from infesting new

Sharpshooter Kirsten Joy Weiss has just posted a new video — and it’s unlike any clip we have seen from her. This time she’s showing us how to “garden with a gun.” Technically speaking, Weiss is really showing us a

HARKER HEIGHTS, Texas (AP) – Game wardens are investigating the killing of an 11-foot alligator along the Lampasas (lam-PA’-sis) River. Texas Parks & Wildlife Department Lt. Billy Champlin said Thursday that two people who were fishing called an agency hotline

These coyote trappers had quite an unexpected animal waiting for them. A black bear indadvertedly got caught in these coyote hunter’s trap. That’s a slightly larger animal than this trapper family was expecting. Source: Patriot Outdoor News

In 35 years as a fisherman, Jim Eastwood has only seen seven skilfish. On Wednesday morning, Eastwood and his crew brought in five of them, caught while longlining more than 200 miles south of Juneau. The largest of the mottled

AUSTIN – The Gulf of Mexico commercial shrimp season for both Texas and federal waters will close 30 minutes after sunset on May 15 until a still-to-be determined time in July. The closing date is based on samples collected by

The following items are compiled from recent Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforcement reports. No Fish Tank License While patrolling Toledo Bend, a Newton County game warden observed a fish tank in a truck with displaying commercial markings required