Todd Harper had no idea what his son Luke and niece Madison Hogan had brought back from the pasture of his cattle ranch near Hammond when they drove up in a utility terrain vehicle. Luke yelled they had an injured
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A Harris county Game Warden received a call about an abandoned boat on the San Jacinto River. When the warden reached the stripped vessel, he ran the HIN to find the owner’s information. The owner, an individual in Alvin, TX,
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As climate change reduces the frequency and intensity of killing freezes, tropical plants and animals that once could survive in only a few parts of the U.S. mainland are expanding their ranges northward, according to a US Geological Survey study.
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A black bear has been captured on video killing a feral hog-close to its own size. The amazing clip filmed by Phillip Talbot of Old Skull Outdoors shows the boldness of black bears rarely observed by people. Subscribe to his
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The Legacy Lunkers continue to roll in with a run of five over last weekend, including three from O.H. Ivie, giving the lake nine during the 2021 Toyota ShareLunker season. The program had a run of eight in just over
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Spring is upon us and that means the start of Texas’ amazing spring wildflower season. Late winter annuals and perennials lead the 2021 flora parade along Texas highways and state lands within our diverse ecoregions and vernal landscapes. Texas bluebonnets
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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) has detected invasive zebra mussels at Medina Lake and Lake Placid will be re-classified as “fully infested.” Infested status signifies that there is now evidence of an established, reproducing population of zebra mussels
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Everyone knows about the Big Chill that beset Texas in mid-February. But not everybody understands the severity of fish loss on the coast. Most bay fish cannot survive the frigid temperatures Texas endured. And dead fish can’t talk. Numbers compiled
Coastal Freeze: More Catch-And-Release? Read More »
Cue the “Jaws” theme. A great white shark has been confirmed by officials with Ocearch, the satellite-tagging-based research group, to be swimming off the Texas Coast. Acadia, a 10 foot, 9-inch, 1,600-pound female, quietly pinged near Nansen, one of the big
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Tuna was on the minds of the anglers on Galveston Party Boat’s The New Buccaneer and Capt. Matt Smith as they traversed the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico on a 30-hour offshore trip. But that changed quickly as
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Texas State Parks have begun a strategic and thoughtful process of expanding capacity statewide, tracking Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest reopening order, and allowing more Texans the opportunity to visit their favorite parks. Masks are strongly encouraged for park visitors, especially when
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When angler Wyatt Frankens of of Wyatt Frankens Guide Service hit the waters on lake O.H. Ivie March 1, he was hoping to get in on some of the incredible monster bass action that has taken place there this year.
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Kevin Collier caught this strikingly beautiful albino rainbow trout while fishing below the dam at Canyon Lake on the Guadalupe River Jan. 1 Albinos of any species are rare but some rainbow trout fisheries like the one in Broken Bow,
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Winter weather the week of Feb. 14, 2021 led to fish kill events on the entire Texas coast. If fish do not make it to a refuge in deeper, more temperature stable water during cold weather, they may die when water temperatures
Freeze Kills 3.8 Million Fish-Trout Hit Hard Read More »
Much of the Rio Grande wild turkey range in Texas experienced two great years of turkey production and recruitment in 2019 and 2020, and this means that hunters this spring turkey season can expect to see many jakes and two-year-old
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With spring around the corner, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) biologists are asking residents with bird feeders to routinely clean them, and the areas surrounding them, in order to help slow the spread of potentially deadly diseases among bird
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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and other wildlife agencies around the country are urging stores who sell aquarium products to remove a “moss ball” aquarium plant product from their shelves and for customers to dispose of the contaminated
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Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed two major gun control bills. H.R. 1446: This bill revises background check requirements applicable to proposed firearm transfers from a federal firearms licensee (e.g., a licensed gun dealer) to an unlicensed person.
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The U.S. House of Representatives plans to vote on two gun control bills as early as next week according to officials with the NRA-ILA. One deals with private gun transfers. The first bill, so-called “universal” background check legislation, would criminalize
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) voted today establish a four-month no fishing closure at Western Dry Rocks, the most important permit spawning site in the Lower Keys. Conservation organizations celebrated the vote, which capped a year-long effort to
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