Emails coming into Texas Fish & Game to identify wildlife or answer various questions related to distribution of certain species are commonplace. We welcome them and appreciate the opportunity to dialogue with our audience. We recently got an email asking […]
What Are Those White Sheep In The Hill Country? Read More »
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission (TPW) approved two oyster regulation changes at its Nov. 3 meeting. These new regulations prohibit oyster harvest in Carlos Bay, Mesquite Bay and Ayres Bay (Mesquite Bay complex) and temporarily prohibit harvest in restoration
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With the first sightings of iconic, endangered whooping cranes along the Texas coast being reported, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is reminding Texans to be on the lookout for these impressive birds as they move through the state.
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While conservationists recently celebrated news that three threatened bay systems would be closed to oyster harvest, concerns remained that other areas would inevitably bear the brunt of intense commercial harvest. Unfortunately, those concerns have become reality as the oyster fleet
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A new Plowprint report from World Wildlife Fund (WWF) reveals that 1.8 million acres of grassland habitat in the Great Plains of U.S., Canada, and Mexico were plowed up in 2020, primarily for row crop agriculture. This large-scale habitat destruction continues to
North America Lost 1.8 Million Acres of Grassland Last Year Read More »
In much of the United States, there is a twice-yearly shift in timekeeping between standard time and daylight saving time, or DST, which delays both sunrise and sunset to make mornings darker and evenings brighter. Recently, scientists, policy experts, lawmakers
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife recently closed the adjudication phase of one of Ohio’s largest white-tailed deer commercialization cases, spanning four counties and two states. The case primarily concerned a particular processor in Gallia County
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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is celebrating 50 years of hunter education in Texas and officially recognized Austin Zurek of Midlothian as the 1.5 millionth student during Thursday’s Texas Parks and Wildlife (TPW) Commission meeting. Zurek completed a
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Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission has directed Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) Executive Director Carter Smith to establish by emergency rule two new chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance zones located primarily in Gillespie and Limestone counties. The two new
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There is a current outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in numerous wild and commercial bird species across North America. Highly pathogenic avian influenza is different than low pathogenic in that it can be fatal to poultry. The researchers did
Scientists Track Bird Flu Infected Duck Read More »
As state agencies target bans on commercial urine and attractants, the Drop Tine Podcast engages in conversation with one of the nations leading biochemists, Dr. Davin Henderson, on the fact that the real science lacks a single case where deer
CWD And Deer Urine Bans-The Facts Read More »
The NWTF Texas State Chapter recently met in New Braunfels to review Hunting Heritage Super Fund project proposals for 2023 funding awards. After the reviewing and ranking process, proposals were presented to and approved by the NWTF Texas Board of Directors. The Board of
NWTF-Texas Makes Big Conservation Donation Read More »
This year La Niña returns for the third consecutive winter, driving warmer-than-average temperatures for the Southwest and along the Gulf Coast and eastern seaboard, according to NOAA’s U.S. Winter Outlook released today by the Climate Prediction Center — a division
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NOAA Fisheries and the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service will rescind a final rule, published in December 2020, which established a regulatory definition of “habitat” specific to designation of critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act. This action will allow
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Strange killings of animals have been increasing around the nation over the last few years. Deer massacres, cattle shootings and other situations have hit communities from Ohio to Florida. One of the strangest situations is happening in Texas where horses
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A monster black bear has been captured and relocated in Tennessee. A 500-pound black bear living near Tusculum college in Greeneville had become habituated to human and unnatural foods and was relocated to a remote area of the Cherokee National
Think Black Bears Don’t Get Big? Think Again! Read More »
The Wild Sheep Foundation (WSF) today shared its concerns in a letter to the Alaska Board of Game (BOG) about the current management challenges the state faces in response to recent winter die-offs of Dall’s sheep in several regions of
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Some of Asia’s largest animals, including tigers and elephants, are defying 12,000 years of extinction trends by thriving alongside humans, a University of Queensland-led study has revealed. Researchers scoured paleontological records to compare the historic distribution of Asia’s 14 largest
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Spatial management, which includes protected areas, is an important tool for marine conservation. Protected areas work best when they are part of a network, and provide protection for the needs of different species and for the multiple life stages of
New Bonefish Research Aids Conservation Read More »
Austin Yeager of the Splendora High School Bass Fishing Team is the overall winner of the 2022 St. Croix and Texas Fish & Game Conservation Challenge Yeager took part in several of the seven total challenges and extended his conservation
Splendora Student Wins St. Croix-TF&G Conservation Challenge Read More »
