State, local and federal first responders have been increasingly busy with recent response efforts. Over the past 10 days, firefighters responded to 178 wildfires that burned 108,493 acres across the state. These include fires near Del Rio, San Angelo, San
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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is closing TX-2, TX-3 and TX-9 in Galveston Bay to commercial and recreational oyster harvest beginning at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, March 22, 2022. This closing is based on samples recently collected by TPWD
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On March 15, President Biden signed into law the Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) omnibus appropriations package, a broad $1.5 trillion spending bill that funds the government through the conclusion of the fiscal year (September 30, 2022). The bill contains 12
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Markhor Comeback The markhor is one of the most striking wild goats on the planet. And in the mid 1990s their numbers were down to near 2,000 in their native Pakistan. Recent conservation efforts have seen a big surge in
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The Coast Guard and Texas Parks & Wildlife Department are urging the public to heed risks and enact recommended safety practices when fishing along Texas coasts and waterways. The latest stats for 2021 showed 21 people drowned while fishing in
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The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division wants to remind boaters to be mindful of the weather as they plan and carry out their boating excursions. Louisiana has already seen four fatalities and three rescues so far in
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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is expanding public fishing and paddling opportunities in the state with the addition of two leased river access sites through the River Access and Conservation Area (RACA) program. The new site at Cupgrass
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Five new ShareLunkers landed in angler boats during the first two weeks of March, continuing a hot stretch for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s (TPWD) 2022 Toyota ShareLunker collection season. O.H. Ivie Lake’s unprecedented run of Legacy Class Lunkers
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47th ANNUAL FISHING SHOW SEMINAR SCHEDULE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2022 4:00 P.M. “Shuga Shane” Waldschmidt – Double Dippin with Light and Heavy Tackle 4:45 P.M. The Bite Me Podcast Show – John Lopez, Scott Null and Caleb McCumber 5:30 P.M.
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Hunters are responding to the Turkey Revolution Eastern Turkey Aware photo contest. Hunters (and wildlife photographers) who submit Eastern turkey photos from Texas and Louisiana will be a challenge token and decal. James Handley submitted these pics from Red River
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In September 2021, an article published in Marine Biology, Journal of Life in Oceans and Coastal Waters, was distributed by the NMFS as a paper and computer model that might be used as a possible decision-making tool for determining whether
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The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will meet Monday, April 4 through Thursday, April 7, 2022 at the The Lodge at Gulf State Park in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Virtual participation will also be available by webinar. During the meeting,
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The issue of oyster habitat loss on the coast has been heating up over the last couple of years. Major loss in Middle Coast bay systems are concerning anglers, fisheries managers and conservation groups like the Coastal Conservation Association. Flatsworthy
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he Government of South Africa released poaching figures for 2021, reporting an increase of 15% over the previous year. A total of 451 animals were killed in 2021, after COVID restrictions that limited movement in the country were gradually lifted.
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The Borderlands Research Institute is inviting those who are interested in how best to minimize the impacts of energy development on natural resources in far West Texas to attend a Summit on Healthy Lands and Energy Development that is scheduled
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The National Wild Turkey Federation and the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission are co-hosting the 12th National Wild Turkey Symposium June 6 – 10, 2022 at the Renaissance Asheville Hotel in Asheville, North Carolina. The symposium brings together wild turkey experts
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The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation strongly disagrees with a ruling by a federal judge in California to restore federal protections to gray wolf populations in the Lower 48. “Scientists, biologists and professional wildlife managers agree that wolf populations are stable
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AUSTIN – This spring turkey season, hunters in Bastrop, Caldwell, Colorado, Fayette, Jackson, Lavaca, Lee, Matagorda, Milam and Wharton counties are required to report their harvests. Mandatory harvest reporting will increase the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s (TPWD) ability to
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Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) enforcement agents are investigating a fatal boating incident that occurred on March 11 in Sabine Parish. Agents recovered the body of George Diboll, 62, of Oakdale, on Toledo Bend around 8 p.m. on
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Delta Waterfowl technicians are working furiously to maintain and add to Delta’s fleet of nearly 10,000 Hen House mallard nesting structures. This important work contributes to the PPR’s overall production of as many as 70 percent of the juvenile ducks
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