![Game Warden Field Notes](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/01-TOJ-notebook.jpg)
The following items are compiled from recent Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforcement reports. The Naked Truth Hunters rely on camouflage clothing to mask…
![Big Bend Ranch State Park is Fourth Texas State Park to Receive International Dark Sky Park Designation](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/01-TOJ-notebook.jpg)
Together with Big Bend National Park, Big Bend Ranch State Park forms one of the largest contiguous areas under dark-skies protection in the United States….
![TPWD Announces Rainbow Trout Stocking Season in Texas](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/01-TOJ-notebook.jpg)
AUSTIN – With hundreds of thousands of catchable-size rainbow trout coming to 150 public water bodies across the state this winter, Texas anglers have plenty…
![Texas Game Wardens Bag High Profile Trophy Deer Poachers](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/01-TOJ-notebook.jpg)
Criminal Cases Illustrate Temptation of Grayson County’s Big Bucks AUSTIN – Deer hunters will go to great lengths in pursuit of a trophy white-tailed buck;…
![TPWD Congratulates 2017 Whiz Bang Sporting Clays Finalists](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/01-TOJ-notebook.jpg)
SAN ANTONIO – The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, in cooperation with Texas 4-H Shooting Sports, recognized finalists in this year’s Whiz Bang sporting clays…
![10th Anniversary of USTS Texas Clipper Sinking as an Artificial Reef](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/01-TOJ-notebook.jpg)
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas – The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s (TPWD) Artificial Reef Program sank the USTS Texas Clipper 10 years ago on Nov….
![Goose Island State Park Boat Ramp Opening Saturday](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/01-TOJ-notebook.jpg)
ROCKPORT— This Saturday, Goose Island State Park will reopen its boat ramp to general public use. The park received significant damage during Harvey and access…
![TPWD Inks Partnership with Botanical Research Institute of Texas](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/01-TOJ-notebook.jpg)
AUSTIN – The Botanical Research Institute of Texas and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department expand areas of their collaboration with the signing of a…
![Giant Salvinia Infestation Found on Lake Fork](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
AUSTIN —The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) has confirmed the presence of invasive giant salvinia at three locations on Lake Fork – the largest…
![Inaugural Fly Fishing Tournament to Benefit TFFC](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/01-TOJ-notebook.jpg)
ATHENS – A new fly fishing tournament benefiting the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center is coming to Athens the first weekend of December – just in…