Texas Parks & Wildlife

BP To Pay Texas $18 Million From Deepwater Horizon Disaster

Eileen Pace — Mon, 06 May 2013 20:47:40 +0000

Texas is included in five of 28 restoration projects across the Gulf of Mexico under a conditional agreement between BP and Natural Resource Damage Assessment trustees.

Texas Parks and Wildlife spokesman Tom Harvey said although the Texas coast was less visibly impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Texas wildlife was affected.

House Passes Bill Banning Practice Of Shark Finning

Ryan Poppe — Fri, 03 May 2013 22:38:00 +0000

House Bill 852, which has passed in the Texas House, places tighter restrictions on the controversial fishing practice called shark finning.

Texas Parks And Wildlife Getting By With Help From Private Donations

Eileen Pace — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:05:00 +0000

Last year Whole Earth Provision raised $30,000 for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and hopes to break its own record this year.

Texas State Parks suffered a tremendous drop in visitors in 2011 that was blamed on extreme heat, the drought and the devastating wildfires - especially in Bastrop State Park.

Putting Money Back Into Texas State Parks

David Martin Davies — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:53:43 +0000

Texas lawmakers are looking to save Texas state parks from closing down by making sure that taxpayer funds intended for state parks get there.

When you go to a sporting goods store and buy a canoe there is a little tax that supports the Texas park system, since a person would be likely to enjoy paddling that canoe on Texas state waterways.

Over the years the state diverted that park tax money and held it in order to balance the state budget on paper.

Increasing Number Of Black Bears Spotted In South Texas

David Martin Davies — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:30:51 +0000

Counties along the Texas-Mexico border are reporting higher numbers of hungry invaders from Mexico -- bears -- and wildlife biologists are trying to quickly educate border residents about the dos and don’ts of living with the big mammals.

Black bears are native to most of the Southwest, but in Texas, human development, hunting and trapping drove the ursine wildlife out of most of South Texas and the Hill Country decades ago.

Texas Parks & Wildlife Restore Bighorns to Big Bend Ranch State Park

David Martin Davies — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:37:14 +0000

It looked like the opening of the television show "M*A*S*H" —a helicopter flying over a mountainscape carrying a passenger in need of care.

Personnel run out to meet the chopper, grab the patient and get to work.

But this is in West Texas at the Elephant Mountain Wildlife Management Area, and the patients are desert bighorn sheep.