AUSTIN, Texas — For many a veteran angler, the pinnacle of a fishing career comes with the explosion of chromed muscle that signals his first tarpon hook-up. That experience was once common on the Texas Gulf coast; so common, in fact, that through the 1950s, tarpon tournaments were commonplace and presidents and potentates made the journey to the third coast to catch a “silver king.”

Texas-Conservationists from California, New Mexico, North Carolina and Texas have been named to new positions on the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation board of directors.

Two disabled veterans of the Iraq War last weekend received a hero's welcome and tribute from grateful members of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.

The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has generated $1.5 million from its first-ever convention in Texas.

Just as the Busch family no longer owns Anheuser-Busch, the company it founded will no longer keep sponsorship money flowing into outdoors and conservation projects in Texas.

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The Texas Wildlife Association believes it is the State Board of Education's job to ensure a curriculum that properly educates Texas children with regard to taking care of the resources of Texas, and the organization told Board members on Monday that it wants to help them to incorporate Texas' natural resources into the state's science curriculum.