December 22, 2017 Washington, DC – An unprecedented alliance of government, business, education and conservation leaders have united to provide a solution for one of America’s greatest threats - the decline of our fish and wildlife and their natural habitats, and what this means for people and the economy. Scientists estimate that one-third of wildlife species in the United States are at risk of becoming threatened or endangered without much needed funding for their conservation.
December 22, 2017 - John Idrogo has learned a lot about the dos and don'ts of deer hunting over the years. In hindsight, the 48-year-old hunter from Tyler claims the most valuable - and toughest - of those lessons is one he had much rather forget.
Shift to the 2014 deer season. It was a dreary day during the Thanksgiving holidays and Idrogo was sharing a Henderson County box blind with his young son, J.J. Only eight years old at the time, J.J. had never taken a crack at a deer before and he was anxious to get blood on his hands for the first time.
December 15, 2017 - It will forever remain a mystery as to what may have lured the late Victor Elliott to the flood-swollen Arkansas River near Fairfax, Okla., on that fateful spring day back in April of 1944. Perhaps he was running limb lines for catfish or poking around in the brush hoping to whack a rabbit or two to help feed his family. Or maybe he was just a 14-year-old kid on a leisurely stroll across the Oklahoma 18 bridge that has linked his hometown to nearby Ralston since the late-1930s.
December 1, 2017 - It is every deer hunter's worst nightmare to pull the trigger on a nice buck and think you made a good shot, only to watch the animal melt away into the brush like some of a ghost. Sometimes there is an obvious blood trail to follow, but even then there are no guarantees you will find a dead deer at the end of it.
Spend enough time deer hunting and sooner or later you are going to find yourself trailing a wounded animal. It's just comes with the territory.
December 1, 2017 - Rio Grande turkey populations are booming in the Texas Hill Country but there are three less long beards tooling around the woods in Mason County these days, courtesy of Andrew Tutt of Longview.
Competitive genes and a distinct love for the outdoors run deep in Tutt's family tree. He's an ace on the baseball diamond, a speedster on the football field and has been bouncing around from bass boats and deer stands since he was old enough to walk.
November 27, 2017 - Texas Parks and Wildlife game wardens in Grayson County recently closed out a trio of poaching cases involving several trophy class white-tailed deer, all of which were taken illegally during the 2016-17 season. According to a TPWD report released on Nov.
November 17, 2017 - The 2017 duck season got underway Nov. 11 and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is reminding waterfowl hunters to clean, drain and dry boats and equipment before traveling from lake to lake to help avoid spreading invasive species like giant salvinia and zebra mussels.