Texas Parks and Wildlife Department requires all paddlers to carry a sound-producing device on their vessels and white light source visible from 360 degrees if paddling in reduced visibility or from sunset to sunrise. Paddlers can use air horns, whistles, or other similar sound-signaling devices...
In addition, native indigenous shrimp and crab species have never been systematically evaluated for infectious disease agents. Concern for these native species prompted the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to initiate a survey to evaluate the general health status of select indigenous marine ...
Marker Texas - It is estimated that the song “Hey Paula” has been played almost every day somewhere in the world since it was recorded in the fall of 1962. The song and its performers, Paul and Paula, exhibited the “Universal Lovers” image and theme that was successful in the mid-1...
Sunday might just be the perfect day for you to disconnect with reality, if even if it is just for just a few hours. While Veterans Day isn't until Wednesday, November 11th. the Texas Wildlife Department is waiving fees in ALL state parks for everyone, in honor of Veterans Day! The de...
Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch: Wildlife Ranch. A family African safari (Texas style) from the comfort of your own vehicle, travel through hundreds of acres of Texas ranchlands that are a safe home for species from all over the world. Schlitterbahn Waterpark Resort: 830-625-2351; Schlitterba...
Minor Details Perry was once a Texas Parks and Wildlife chairman; captained Ted Turner’s American Eagle to World Open Racing Championship in 1972. Sid built Fort Worth’s mammoth City Center office towers; had wallet lightened by $200 million-plus courtesy divorce from Anne, then married an ...
In 2010, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department almost doubled the amount of available parkland when it paid $13 million for the nearly 18,000-acre Devils River Ranch, about ten miles north ofLake Amistad, where the current ceases its perceptible flow. As more paddlers came to the area,...
The Parks and Wildlife Marine Lab, in the turning basin, has a funny little aquarium where I saw a spiny boxfish and a shamefaced crab, among other things. Swell for kids. Rockport is one of the richest birding territories in Texas, or anywhere else for that matter. More than four ...
Growing up in El Paso, he developed a passion for the desert early in life. Alloway scraped out a living by hustling jobs around the Big Bend before the Parks and Wildlife Department hired him six years ago. Now he is something of a civic leader in the region. He’s an Episcopal lay...