Texas Parks and Wildlife stocks rainbow trout in approximately 100 locations each winter and will make Burnet’s Hamilton Creek one of its locations in January 2022. Along with replenishing habitats, the state entity also likes to provide catchable-size fish for educational activities and community fishing waterways.

General rifle season for turkey and deer is set to end this Sunday, Jan. 2, 2021. A late youth-only season will run from Jan. 2 to Jan. 16, as well a special late season restricted to antlerless deer and unbranched antlered bucks. Pictured here is Tyler Herren and his son Hunter during the 2021 youth-only season. Contributed/Ketterman Ranch

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s (TPWD) Inland Fisheries Division has selected 21 projects to be supported by the new Habitat and Angler Access Program (HAAP). The program, which launched in June 2021, is primarily funded by the purchase of freshwater fishing licenses.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), through the Texas Nature Trackers program, is inviting Texans to participate in the sixth annual City Nature Challenge, Friday, April 30 through Monday, May 3.

Well distributed and timely precipitation across much of Texas in the spring, along with positive long-term growth among the state’s white-tailed deer population, has set the stage for a favorable 2020-21 hunting season.