In late 2008, a shooting at the Mule Lip Bar in Mingus ended with a man dead. As detailed in a front-page story in theFort Worth Star-Telegram, the “deadly encounter started the wheels turning on a bizarre Texas tale of lawsuits, family feuds, rich real estate deals and the seeding ...
Texas Parks and Wildlife magazine, the Outdoor Magazine of Texas: At Ray Roberts State Park, sunrise and sunset bookend a day of hiking, riding, fishing and camping.
The hooded skunk (Mephitis macroura) is primarily a Mexican species that has been known to inhabit the Big Bend region of Texas. It is more secretive than the striped skunk, with which it is often confused. The hooded skunk has longer, softer fur and a hood of longer hair on the neck ...
” Ortego recalls. “So, two groups made special efforts to find that species. As the sun was setting, several teams were scanning roosting flocks of blackbirds searching for the still-missing yellow-headed. The South Texas Project team finally found eight. We hadn’t found any redhead ducks...
A few years later, he began collecting at Velasco in Texas. He spent 21 months working the area between Galveston Island and the Edwards Plateau along the Brazos, Colorado and Guadalupe rivers. His Texas collections — 750 species of plants and 150 specimens of birds — were the first ...
Robbie Hurt, a South Texas rancher and houndsman, recovers around 60 wounded deer every season. More than half of those deer are still alive and have to be brought to bay. “We’d almost never catch a deer if we had to keep dogs on a lead,” he says. ...