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Hunting, fishing, lakes, and the open air.
Three good fawn years pushed the Texas whitetail herd to an estimated 5.64 million. State biologists expect a good season, with the best odds in the Hill Country, Cross Timbers and Rolling Plains.
A Pecos County hunter's elk carried New World screwworm, and general deer season opens Nov. 7. Wildlife officials want every hunter to inspect the harvest and report anything suspicious.
The Dan A. Hughes Unit of Devils River State Natural Area, an hour north of Del Rio, is now open with primitive riverside camping, 10 miles of trail and some of the darkest skies in Texas. Reservations are recommended.
TPWD wants to trim outdated fishing rules, add a live-well exception for ShareLunker bass and clarify limits on guided boats and oversized redfish. The flounder closure stays. Comments close Nov. 4.
Texas Parks and Wildlife is asking waterfowl hunters to clean, drain and dry boats, decoys and waders between lakes. Giant salvinia is on 30 East Texas lakes and zebra mussels are in 40.
Lost Maples gets the crowds, but TPWD points to yellow cottonwoods at Caprock Canyons and East Texas hardwoods at Daingerfield, Cooper and more. Here is where to go and what to know.
Texas logs close to 8,000 reported animal-vehicle crashes a year, most at night on rural roads from October through December. The end of daylight saving time puts more drivers on the road in the dark just as deer are on the move.
About 700,000 sandhill cranes winter in Texas, from the Panhandle to the coast. Here is how to know one, when they peak and where to go, from Muleshoe to Aransas County.
A firefly unrecorded for 43 years has been found in Delaware. Its rediscovery reveals what may be happening to the fireflies many of us remember chasing as children — and why leaving a little ground wild can matter.
A court fight with an irrigation district has federal lawyers weighing a move of 2.8 miles of wall from a levee into the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge near Alamo. Here is what was said in court.
Parks and Wildlife will open areas in Galveston, Matagorda, Aransas and Corpus Christi bays and the Lower Laguna Madre. Recreational harvesters may keep only oysters 3 inches or longer, with a limit of two sacks per person.
Inks Lake State Park near Burnet has more than 12 miles of trail over pink gneiss hills. Here is what TPWD lists, and what to know before you go this fall.