Texas Fish & Game

The National News of Texas

March 9, 2024

Spring Turkey Outlook Improves From 2023

With the early spring green-up and mild winter weather, spring wild turkey season is shaping up to be very productive for hunters. Most of Texas experienced a bump in production and recruitment in 2023 following fall […]
March 15, 2023

TPWD Examines Turkey Prospects By Ecological Region

While the 2022 drought and heat have reduced wild turkey numbers across Texas, hunters who hit the field this spring should see plenty of birds in areas that typically house huntable populations of wild turkeys. Texas […]
March 15, 2022

TX Turkey Hunting Outlook Strong

Areas in Texas that have historically had huntable populations of wild turkeys will have solid numbers again this spring hunting season. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) biologists say hunters will have the most luck in […]
January 20, 2022

Maine Turkeys Help Complete Franklin County Super Stocking

“Live Animals” Thirteen  boxes with green and white stickers announcing this was organic, living cargo arrived at the headquarters of Cooper Lake Wildlife Management Area in Northeast Texas. The decal had an icon of a dog, […]
March 8, 2021

Choosing The Right Turkey Gun

Any shotgun can kill a turkey. That’s right, any gun from an old single shot .410 up to a 10 gauge goose gun with the right load can potentially down a gobbler, but that doesn’t make […]
December 9, 2020

Turkeys Are A “Bird Of Courage”?

Benjamin Franklin was quite fond of turkeys. How do we know? Well, in one well-publicized case, the founding father was so disappointed that the bald eagle was chosen the country’s national bird that he wrote a letter in 1784 to his daughter, Sarah […]
January 1, 2020

Eastern Turkey Release (Video)

Eastern Turkey Release “There he goes!” My daughter Faith excitedly proclaimed those words as she cracked open a box and released an Eastern turkey into the wilds of Titus County, TX. We went to document the […]
April 12, 2019

Turkey Slam Success! Rio Grande!

Cruising down the back roads of Kerr County, TX is an interesting experience. The majority of wildlife spotted is exotic and much of it ranging beyond the confines of high fenced hunting ranches. Axis deer, blackbuck […]
March 15, 2019

White Turkeys-Wild, Feral or Butterballs? (Pt. 1)

White specimens of animals normally other colors are intriguing. Who can deny the iconic image of the white buffalo for example? When it comes to grabbing readers attention however we found that nothing does the job […]
November 19, 2017

Are Hogs Killing Off Turkeys?

Wild turkeys are more numerous than they have been in decades and in some regions, there are arguably more birds than ever throughout the United States. Some states like Louisiana for example are seeing a decline. […]