BASS FISHING AND conservation go hand-in-hand. St. Croix and Texas Fish & Game want to take this to the youth and incentivize conservation activism among Texas high school bass fishing competitors. “We believe this tech-savvy generation can do great things for […]
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Bonefish & Tarpon Trust has received a $250,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) to restore degraded coastal habitat in Southwest Florida. The NFWF grant will provide funding to support two mangrove restoration projects at Shell Island
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The month of January begins a new year and with it the beginning of the 36th season of the Toyota ShareLunker program when anglers across the state, and for that matter the nation, cast their lines and fish for Largemouth
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Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) enforcement agents arrested a Buras man for allegedly harassing hunters on public property in Plaquemines Parish on Dec. 26. Agents arrested Brendan Nolan, 32, for harassment of a person lawfully hunting, simple assault,
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Higher Calling Wildlife, the podcast hosted by wildlife journalist and conservationist and Texas Fish & Game Editor-In-Chief Chester Moore is kicking off 2022 in big fashion. Moore has signed onto the Waypoint Podcast Network, joining other top hunting, fishing and
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The Wild Sheep Foundation (WSF) have announced partnering with SITKA and the support of the company’s Ecosystem Grants program to a critical research project on aoudad. Aoudad, endemic to the Atlas Mountains of Northern Africa, are a non-native species first
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As the Assistant Director of Texas STAR, I get questions all the time about catching tagged redfish. We always give the advice of fishing popular spots, easy to access areas and places where they have been caught in the past.
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Ashlee and Chad have come together to create a national series called, Able Outdoors, in order to blaze a trail for able sportsmen and women. The two met at SHOT Show in 2017, but have known each other for many
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The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) announced confirmation of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) in two spotted hyenas at a zoo in Colorado. These are the first hyenas confirmed with the SARS-CoV-2 virus
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Researchers in Canada have found what could be the first deer to human tranmission of COVID-19. According to a CDB article, preliminary research suggests deer may be able to transmit the COVID-19 virus to humans, following analysis by a team of Canadian
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China’s Père David’s deer was nearly gone in the late 1800s. Just 18 deer – the very last of their kind – were brought into captivity after the rest had been hunted to extinction. When 11 of the deer reproduced,
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A Texas Cooperative Extension survey of 491 East Texas landowners indicates that feral hog populations dramatically increased during the last ten years. Prior to the survey, it was known that feral hog numbers were rapidly rising in East Texas starting
East Texas Hog Numbers Have Skyrocketed Read More »
The Department of the Interior has announced the formation of the Hunting and Wildlife Conservation Council, a federal advisory committee that will consist of America’s leading experts on hunting, wildlife and conservation. Comparable versions of the Council have spanned several
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“You’ve got to check this out.” That text from my friend Nolan Haney was accompanied with a screen shot from an East Texas hunting group on Facebook. It included a photo of a smoke-phase turkey, a rare color morph but
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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is seeking public input on the proposed rules changing bag and size limits for spotted seatrout on the middle and lower Texas coast. The proposed rules would reduce the spotted seatrout bag limit
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There are quite a few regulations that dictate what you can and cannot use as bait while fishing in federal waters or with federally managed species. Many of the regulations aren’t directly related to guidance on the use of species
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In 2021, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service added nearly 7,000 acres of public land to the National Wildlife Refuge System in Texas. This brings the total number of Service-managed lands in the state to nearly 700,000 acres at 19 National Wildlife
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Wolves are charismatic, conspicuous, and easy to single out as the top predator affecting populations of elk, deer, and other prey animals. However, a new study has found that the secretive cougar is actually the main predator influencing the movement of elk
Study Shows Elk Fear Cougars More Than Wolves Read More »
If southern flounder live in warmer water during a critical window of early development, a higher percentage become male – more than 90 percent in some cases – research from North Carolina State University found. Having a high proportion of
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African Painted Wild Dogs require vast areas for roaming, hunting, and breeding. They move relentlessly in search of prey, often covering as mush as 50 to 80 kilometres in a day. This has made tracking and recording of their habits
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