![Official Media Advisory: Media Invited to Event Discussing the Upcoming Translocation of Desert Bighorn Sheep to Franklin Mountains State Park](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/01-TOJ-notebook-470x75.jpg)
EL PASO — The Texas Parks Wildlife Department (TPWD) invites the greater El Paso community to learn about restoration of desert bighorn sheep to the…
![Texas Game Wardens’ Operation Dry Water Campaign Effective in Reducing BWIs](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/01-TOJ-notebook-470x75.jpg)
AUSTIN – Despite the landfall of Hurricane Beryl, Texas Game Wardens worked hard to keep Texans safe as they celebrated the Fourth of July on…
![2024 Birding Classic Raises Significant Funds for Conservation Grants](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/01-TOJ-notebook-470x75.jpg)
AUSTIN — Notching a record number of participants, the 28th annual Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) Great Texas Birding Classic raised $52,000 in conservation…
![Commercial Gulf Shrimp Season Opens July 15](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/01-TOJ-notebook-470x75.jpg)
AUSTIN — The Gulf of Mexico commercial shrimp season for state and federal waters will reopen 30 minutes after sunset on Monday, July 15. Texas…
![Official Media Statement: Beryl Updates](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/01-TOJ-notebook-470x75.jpg)
In anticipation of projected impacts from storm Beryl, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is closing some coastal sites, opening camping spaces to shelter evacuees…
![Official Media Statement: South Padre Island Shark Encounters](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/01-TOJ-notebook-470x75.jpg)
On July 4, Texas Game Wardens, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), the South Padre Island Police Department (SPI PD) and Cameron County Park…
![Official Media Advisory: TPWD to Release 1 Billionth Fish into Texas Waters July 10](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/01-TOJ-notebook-470x75.jpg)
LAKE JACKSON— Help the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) celebrate a Texas-sized milestone July 10th as biologists release the billionth hatchery-produced fingerling (one-to-two-inch fish)….
![Texas Drawn Hunt Program Opens for the 2024-25 Season Applications](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/01-TOJ-notebook-470x75.jpg)
AUSTIN – Hunters will have new opportunities and scenery this fall through the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s (TPWD) drawn hunt permits program. The program,…
![Texas Game Wardens Stress Boating Safety, ’Staying Dry’ During July 4 Holiday](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/01-TOJ-notebook-470x75.jpg)
AUSTIN – As temperatures continue to rise, many Texans and out-of-state visitors are making plans to cool off on one of the many pristine waterbodies…
![TPWD Completes Groundbreaking Bass Tracking Study](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/01-TOJ-notebook-470x75.jpg)
TYLER – Biologists from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) have completed an innovative study that tracked the movement and behaviors of largemouth bass…