Spring has sprung. With extended sunshine and milder days, more people are enjoying the outdoors as native wildlife adds new fawns and hatchlings to their broods. Texans may start to notice more wildlife in their backyard, […]
“As wild turkeys go, so do America’s forests.” That revelation is what inspired award-winning wildlife journalist and conservationist Chester Moore to begin his Turkey Revolution project in 2019. “Particularly in the eastern half of the country, […]
Tracking Texas Eastern Turkeys By Chester Moore The speed at which a bulky wild turkey can take to the air and disappear into a forest canopy is impressive. Turkeys most often run when retreating but are […]
The Key deer (Odocoileus virginianus clavium) is the smallest whitetail subspecies topping out at 60 pounds and living exclusively in their namesake islands on the Florida coast. Seeing a herd of Key deer on my honeymoon in […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]