TF&G Hunting Editor and longtime Fort Worth Star-Telegram outdoor writer Bob Hood passed away after a battle with cancer. He was 69. We will miss not only Bob’s writing but his friendship and high level of integrity. We will have […]
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An Oklahoma State representative introduced a bill this week that would see protections put into place to prevent schools from punishing students who bring with them small toy guns, or objects resembling or depicting guns. A spate of incidents in
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A satellite tag attached to one endangered Puget Sound killer whale is yielding some valuable information about the migration of orcas in recent days. Federal biologists tracking a 22-year-old whale, known as L-87, say he and others have moved moving extensively through
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The following are notes collected from Texas Parks & Wildlife Department game wardens. Game Warden in the Spotlight A Palo Pinto County game warden had just gotten into position to watch an oat field when a vehicle stopped in front
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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department exhibit, “The Last of the Dreadnought Battleships,” will open on Feb. 1 at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin and run through April 13. The exhibit pays homage to the Battleship TEXAS, which
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A good Samaritan has helped the U.S. Coast Guard save two men whose fishing boat capsized off the southern Texas Gulf Coast. The men were fishing on Monday near Redfish Bay in Port Aransas when their 12-foot boat capsized. The
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The 18-year-old student who stormed into his Colorado school last month with a shotgun and a bandolier of bullets across his chest, fatally shooting a classmate and setting fire to the library, provided fresh ammunition for one lawmaker’s bill that
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I read an article recently, by Brandon Turbeville, about the Executive Actions Obama signed, January 3rd 2014, further limiting our gun rights, and it got me to thinking about the “Axis of Evil” which have now joined forces to disarm us. Although
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NOAA Fisheries announced today final regulations requiring the United States Navy to implement protective measures during training and testing activities in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico to reduce effects on marine mammals. The Navy requested an authorization under
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Jay G. Conrad, of Lakeland, Tenn., pleaded guilty today in the District of Maine to conspiring to illegally import and traffic narwhal tusks, conspiring to launder money, and illegally trafficking narwhal tusks, announced Robert G. Dreher, Acting Assistant Attorney General
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The following items are compiled from recent Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforcement reports. Willie the Decoy Two Henderson County game wardens and two Cherokee County game wardens were patrolling for night hunters because calls were received from landowners
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The Texas State-Fish Art Contest, headquartered at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center (TFFC), reminds Texas teachers and students that the deadline for entries in the 2014 State-Fish Art Contest is March 31, 2014. The contest is open to any student
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BOISE, Idaho – Conservation groups are suing federal and state officials over Idaho’s plan to track and kill wolves from two packs in central Idaho. The lawsuit, filed by Defenders of Wildlife, Western Watersheds Project and Wilderness Watch in Pocatello’s
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After centuries of hunting and eradication, mountain lions are slowly making a comeback in the lower 48 states. But as their numbers grow, so do conflicts with people. They cross roads and get in and among houses, especially after dark.
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It’s so cold, even polar bears and penguins were being kept indoors Monday. Anana, the lone polar bear at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, has never grown the thick layer of fat that bears in their native Arctic develop
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A man says he has been raising a duckling in his beard — and he has the photos to prove he isn’t a quack. Reddit user Spongi said he failed to hatch chicken eggs but, somehow, a duck egg that got
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Four full time touring professional anglers that compete on the B.A.S.S. Elite Series will be hosting a special class on Lake Amistad. Pro-Bass Class, Session 1, will be held Feb. 8-10. Instructors include Kurt Dove, Mike McClelland, Jeff Kriet and
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Two home invasion suspects are on the run and a third was fatally shot by a South Florida resident who fought back against the armed intruders with an AK-47 Thursday night, police said. The incident happened at a home on
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A new University of Texas-Austin study shows that producing electricity from natural gas saves much more water than producing power from coal, even accounting for water lost in fracking for shale gas. In other words, fracking for natural gas used to produce electricity may
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Ever wonder what goes on in a crab trap or a crab net? Well, this video does a good job showing the activity and you just might be surprised.
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