This past week, the Texas House and Senate approved the conference committee report on Senate Bill 321.  This NRA-backed employee protection/parking lot legislation was sponsored by state Senator Glenn Hegar (R-Katy) and state Representative Tim Kleinschmidt (R-Lexington). 

The Quality Deer Management Association has just released their third annual Whitetail Report.  This report can be a useful resource for biologists, managers, hunters, and industry leaders.

Surely Davy Crockett, Sam Houston and Jim Bowie are rolling over in their graves.  It is hard to believe that these patriots in the fight for a free and independent Texas would ever have foreseen that a legislature full of supposed conservatives would vote to permit warrantless searches of the homes of those folks who might sell a few puppies at the end of their driveway.

TWA is actively working several bills in the Texas Legislature relating to deer, deer management permits, and the deer breeding industry.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and representatives from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) — the trade association for the firearms industry — today announced the return of the “Don’t Lie for the Other Guy” major campaign to reduce illegal straw purchases of firearms in the Houston area.

Will winter ever end? That was a question on the minds of many Saturday morning, January 22nd. Bass Champs East Texas Region held their 2011 kick-off event at the Umphrey Family Pavilion on Sam Rayburn as much of the region had a coating of ice over it with temperatures dipping into the lower 20’s.

Changes to Texas' cattle trichomoniasis (or “trich”) regulations were adopted Tuesday, October 5, by the 13 governor-appointed leaders of the Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) and will become effective in November 2010. Dr. Andy Schwartz, TAHC assistant state veterinarian and epidemiologist, discussed the program and outlined rule changes for board members of the Independent Cattlemen's Association of Texas (ICA).

With the 2010 midterm elections just around the corner, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) - the trade association for the firearms and ammunition industry - is encouraging all sportsmen, hunters and gun owners to register to vote and visit the NSSF Voter Education Web page to educate themselves on the candidates running for office.  

With many industry insiders calling for a unifying world championship, Bassfan.com states "many have argued that the Toyota Texas Bass Classic (TTBC) is in fact a unifying championship."  For that reason, Bassfan.com has elected to include the TTBC in the BassFan World Rankings. A new edition of the Rankings will be published after the conclusion of the TTBC.

Between years of drought and years punctuated with flash floods, Texans' relationship with water reflects both the vital necessity of water and its destructive potential. For nine years, TP&W magazine has examined this relationship in a series of annual issues devoted to pressing water resource issues that face Texans. This includes covering major trends, ways people can conserve water and efforts to plan water use and balance the needs of people, industry, agriculture and the environment.