We are hunters. As a subset of America, we’re admittedly somewhat smaller than we used to be. Our numbers have been steadily pressed beneath a culture growing ever faster, more complex and distant from its rural ancestry. Now, like growing vegetables, gathering fresh eggs and raising farm animals for the table, the proclivity and skill [...]
At Murphree Wildlife Management Area (WMA) near Port Arthur, Texas, the Jefferson County storm levee held back the storm surge created by Hurricane Ike, protecting WMA buildings from flooding. The levee can resist a 14 foot crest and staff reported the area had 11 feet of seawater surge. One Murphree WMA shop building was severely [...]
The Texas teal prospects are plain and simple: if you have water, you should have birds when the hunting season opens on September 13. However, coastal hunters have another variable — where is Hurricane Ike, forecasted to come ashore sometime Saturday, going to make landfall?
And, if winds blow at hurricane force, what will that do to [...]
Due to flooding and dangerous conditions caused by Hurricane Ike the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has canceled public hunts at sites in the storm’s path. This news release updates and replaces earlier information about cancelled and rescheduled hunts.All previously scheduled public hunts on the J.D. Murphree Wildlife Management Area for the month of September [...]
Dove season has kicked off in Texas and reports, like the doves, have been scattered between fair and exceptional. Find out more about Texas’ north, central, and south zone dove hunting reports below:
North Zone Dove: Best hunts have been had over plowed sunflowers and cut milo fields. Hunts near Amarillo and counties north have taken [...]
Have you got quail on the mind? Well, I have good news then! The Texas Quail Study Group will meet in Odessa on October 2-3 at the MCM Grande Hotel. The symposium is open to anyone interested in quail management. This year’s theme is Desert Quail Management, said Dr. Dale Rollins, Texas AgriLife Extension Service [...]
Just days prior to the September 1st dove season opener in most of Texas, a research team was out two days prior to the season collecting bird specimens for a research study on the effectiveness of various shotshells, including non-lead shot. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department wildlife biologists are in the first year of a [...]
