This week's episode of TROPHY HUNTERS TV®, "Generations of Texas Hunters" features The Director of Texas Parks and Wildlife heads to South Texas for a whitetail hunt that will be long remembered.

Over 75 million homes will be able to able watch this year's Toyota Texas Bass Classic (TTBC) when the world championship of bass fishing airs on Versus, which is part of the NBC Sports Group. The TTBC, an annual three-day bass fishing world championship and outdoor music festival will take place in Conroe Oct. 28-30.

Texas Parks and Wildlife fire-fighting personnel were continuing with clean up work at Bastrop State Park Thursday, having saved almost all the historic Depression-era structures on the 6,000-acre park just east of fire-ravaged Bastrop.

A Texas man was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Wichita on felony charges of conspiracy, wildlife trafficking and obstruction of justice related to the illegal sale of guided deer hunts in southern Kansas

Texas Trophy Hunters Association (TTHA) is proud to announce it will be donating half of all proceeds from the sale of official State of Texas TTHA license plates to support the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation and public hunting opportunities in Texas.

The Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) is pleased to announced that Dr. Bill Eikenhorst of Texas and Austin Musselman of Kentucky have been elected to serve on QDMA's National Board of Directors.

Congressman Ron Kind (D-WI) introduced the Moving Outdoors in Nature Act (MONA) in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill supports federal, state and local strategies that connect children with the natural world.

The National Wild Turkey Federation has hired Gene Miller of Canyon, Texas, as its new regional biologist.  Miller will oversee projects pertaining to conserving wild turkeys and other wildlife and preserving our hunting heritage in Oklahoma and western Texas. 

The National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) is pleased to announce the recipients of the association's 2010 National Awards. These awards are presented annually to deserving individuals and agencies to honor their efforts-both professional and personal-in the field of parks and recreation.

Texas is a mighty big place, but its borders aren't nearly big enough to contain its residents' passion for wildlife, hunting and conservation. Over the past year, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation supporters across the state have raised enough money to grant substantial funding for elk habitat initiatives nationwide, plus keep some dollars at home for important conservation education efforts in 12 Texas counties.