Applications are now available for the 12th Annual Texas Big Game Awards (TBGA) Wildlife Conservation College Scholarship Program, sponsored by Carter’s Country Outdoor Stores and the Wildlife Heritage Foundation of Texas.

The Texas Wildlife Association Foundation (TWAF) and the San Antonio Livestock Exposition, Inc. (S.A.L.E.) have joined forces to offer five $10,000 Natural Resource-Excellence in Education Scholarships in the fall of 2011.

A record auction amount for a desert bighorn ram permit in Texas highlighted the TWA Grand Auction on July 9 at WildLife 2011, the annual convention of the Texas Wildlife Association.

The Texas Wildlife Association accomplished 13 of its 15 priority legislative goals during the recent regular session of the 82nd Legislature, with the other two goals partially accomplished, according to a legislative scorecard compiled by the organization.

Texas Wildlife Association leaders and members from across the state promoted TWA legislative priorities with statewide elected leaders and state legislators during the Feb. 14-15 TWA Boots on the Ground event in Austin.

The House Committee on Land and Resource Management has received SB 18 after the bill providing meaningful eminent domain reform cleared the Texas Senate last week with a unanimous 31-0 vote.