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Spring in Texas, with its pleasant temperatures, budding trees and riot of wildflowers, reigns as the most popular season for camping. So, there's no better time than the coming months to participate in Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's increasingly popular program that introduces reluctant campers to the joys of pitching a tent under the stars.

The 2009 Bassmaster Elite Series season rolls out with the Battle on the Border at Texas' Lake Amistad, where Elite anglers have produced impressive hauls of bass in the past three seasons. In 2008, Todd Faircloth of Jasper, Texas, moved from 10th place to first on the final day of the event to edge then-Elite rookie Clark Reehm of Russellville, Arkansas, by 12 ounces with a total weight of 76 pounds, 15 ounces.

Texas Parks & Wildlife TV Program - Weekly schedule and show descriptions for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has recently been updated.

Texas anglers have about two more weeks to fish for trout in selected locations. Check the trout schedule for late-season stocking dates at the Canyon, Lewisville, and Possum Kingdom tailraces, and at Comanche Trails in Odessa.

Spring in Texas, with its pleasant temperatures, budding trees and riot of wildflowers, reigns as the most popular season for camping. So, there’s no better time than the coming months to participate in Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s increasingly popular program that introduces reluctant campers to the joys of pitching a tent under the stars.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, more commonly known as the stimulus bill, went through a very quick and very controversial approval process over the past few weeks. The end result features great projects for fish and wildlife. Among the $787 billion in programs aimed at creating jobs, the TRCP, working with its partner organizations and the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, ensured that some of that money was set aside to enhance habitat.

After Skeet Reese of Auburn, California, realized his first career goal in 2007 of winning the Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year award in the Bassmaster Elite Series, he set his sights on winning bass fishing's ultimate event.

A $486,000 donation by natural gas producer EnCana Corporation to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation will fund a new grant program to get high school students out into natural settings for service-oriented learning projects, control of giant salvinia and other invasive plants choking Toledo Bend reservoir in East Texas, and much-needed facilities for the new Texas Game Warden Training Center.