The compilation cover album Texas Wild, which includes pairings such as Adrian Quesada and Destiny’s Child’s “Say My Name,” was curated by a mad Texan genius.
Six hikers died from heat-related causes in Texas state and national parks this summer. Should trail closures on the hottest days be standard?
The twenty best Texas parks for birding, time traveling, kayaking, meeting up with relatives, and more.
As we celebrate one hundred years of our state parks, they are more popular than ever. But our booming population is overwhelming the state’s scarce public lands. What will the next century hold for Texas’s “best idea”?
Proposed regulations have prompted an intense backlash from hunters, trappers, and landowners.
With Texas’s annual Free Fishing Day, you can cast your line without all the red tape. No license required!
Decades of conservation have helped save the native fish, now iconic to Central Texas anglers.
A constitutional amendment on the ballot in November aims to shore up funding for Texas’s system of state parks and historic sites.
The deer industry is booming. Participation in the sport is not.
The Instagram accounts that’ll have you itching to take a Texas road trip.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife department is temporarily suspending its controversial policy of shooting wild burros in Big Bend Ranch State Park to control the animal population.
If you’re a half shell fanatic like me, you’ll be just as alarmed as I was to hear that oystermen in Galveston Bay—the source of some of the country’s most delicious mollusks —are still struggling to make it after Hurricane Ike.
Our natural resources are under greater threat than ever before. Meet three very different people who are doing something to save Texas. Literally.
A case for the parks.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is seeking corporate sponsors.
East Texas deer breeder Billy Powell flouted the laws against importing live whitetails, emailing photos of his illegally obtained animals to prospective customers. Then Texas Parks and Wildlife came calling.
Whether you’re talking to teens about politics or on a date with a baseball fanatic, we’ll give you something to talk about.
What's missing from all the bureaucratic back and forth over permits and mining and dredging is a sense of the importance of the river itself.
To hear John Poindexter tell it, he’s one of the good guys—a faithful steward of his West Texas land and therefore a worthy bidder for 46,000 acres of Big Bend Ranch State Park. But sometimes having your heart in the right place simply isn’t enough.
A terrific and prolific photographer remembered.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department aims to please hunters and birders alike. So why is everyone gunning for it?
After nearly fifty years of working Matagorda Bay, Vernon Bates could soon watch his business shut down for good—and so could the thousands of other shrimpers who make their living on the Gulf Coast.
When mountain lions started turning up, the Sierra Club said, “Save them!” Ranchers said, “No way!”
The troubled Parks and Wildlife Department is supposed to protect the state’s natural resources. Instead, it protects its friends and, above all, itself.
Today’s desperadoes are in the bays of the Texas coast, roping redfish and cursing the Parks and Wildlife Department.
