![Texas Game Wardens Add Second Helicopter to Aviation Unit](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/01-TOJ-notebook-470x75.jpg)
AUSTIN – The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) has added a new helicopter to its fleet of law enforcement aircraft. The 2023 Airbus H125…
![Chronic Wasting Disease Detected in Medina County Deer Breeding Facility](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/01-TOJ-notebook-470x75.jpg)
AUSTIN — Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) received confirmation of one case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a Medina County deer breeding facility….
![TPWD Releases 1 Billionth Fish into Texas Waters](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/01-TOJ-notebook-470x75.jpg)
Editor’s note: a press kit is available for media with materials including stocking video, photos and more at https://tpwd.texas.gov/newsmedia/media-kits/billionth-fish-release-media-kit/. LAKE JACKSON—Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s…
![Official Media Advisory: TPWD to Release 1 Billionth Fish into Texas Waters July 31](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 31 as biologists release the billionth hatchery-produced fingerling (one-to-two-inch fish)….
![About the August 2024 Cover](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Cover-6-470x140.jpg)
Distinguished artist Persis Clayton Weirs paintings have been displayed throughout eastern and mid-west states at some of the most prestigious shows held. The self-taught painter…
![Freshwater Impact on Saltwater Fishing](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Danno-5-470x140.jpg)
Rain runoff into bays doesn’t necessarily put a damper on fishing, especially for anglers that understand its effects on coastal waters and fish in them….
![Rio Lobo](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Zaiglin-4-470x140.jpg)
The major concern wildlife managers have with the coyote is the indiscriminate manner in which they kill deer. Story and photography by Bob Zaiglin As…
![Decoying Early and Late Dove](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Olson-3-470x140.jpg)
A fun, productive way to increase birds in game bag compared to shells shot during hot early and late seasons of dove hunts. Story and…
![Water, Water, Everywhere!](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Hughes-2-470x140.jpg)
Lake level management and how to fish high water impounds explained. Story and photography by Brian Hughes Spring rains didn’t fool around in 2024! Rainfalls…
![PRESEASON SCOUTING & HUNT PREPARATIONS](https://texasoutdoorsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Just-Hunt-Tom-1-470x140.jpg)
Story by Tom Claycomb III I’d bet a dollar to a donut that over 95 percent of hunters don’t intimately know the year around habits…