The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now accepting comments on land protection plans for the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge and Big Boggy NWR in Texas.

Public comments will be accepted through Jan. 26, 2024 by emailing r2_plancomments@fws.gov.

12/25/23 - FWS accepting comments on plans for two wildlife refuges in Texas

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, $1.78 million dollars has been awarded to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to construct multiple underpass crossings on Steve Thompson Drive at the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge.

01/01/24 - FWS to build ocelot underpasses in Texas

To control and prevent the spread of rabies among wildlife, livestock and people, this month the Texas Department of State Health Services will be air dropping oral rabies vaccine baits over 18 counties along the Texas-Mexico border.

01/10/24 - Oral rabies vaccine drops this month

Alan Cain, big game program director for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, discusses why new detections of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in deer breeding facilities leads to the creation of a surveillance zone two miles around the facility.

01/11/24 - CWD surveillance zones help monitor for spread of the disease

According to a new report from the National Deer Association, mule deer harvest was down across much of the U.S. in 2022.

01/17/24 - Mule deer harvest down in 2022

Next week, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission will receive an update on the actions of the 2023 Mountain Lion Stakeholder Working Group.

01/18/24 - Mountain lion update

Registration is now underway for the Texas Waterfowl Symposium, scheduled for Feb. 1-2 in Corsicana. 

Register here: https://www.texas-wildlife.org/events/texas-waterfowl-symposium/

01/19/24 - Registration underway for Texas Waterfowl Symposium

In response to several recent detections of Chronic Wasting Disease, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission recently approved the creation of several new CWD containment and surveillance zones.

01/29/24 - New Chronic Wasting Disease zones in Texas

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has been asked to create a mountain lion management plan, including mandatory trap checks, and a potential ban on canned hunts.

That request came from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission after the commission heard the final report from the Texas Mountain Lion Stakeholder Working Group.

02/01/24 - Mountain Lion Stakeholder group presents final report

While a statewide mountain lion stakeholder working group may not have agreed on all issues they were tasked with addressing, they did agree on several items – and that has led to a request for a management plan for mountain lions from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

02/02/24 - Commission tasks TPWD with mountain lion plan, potential ban on canned hunts

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