Protection of fishing, hunting, and shooting on national forest and public lands has taken a step forward with the Senate introduction of the Recreational Fishing and Hunting Heritage and Opportunities Act.

Thanks to a generous donation from Larry and Brenda Potterfield, founders of MidwayUSA, 400 high school students from the Dallas, TX area had the opportunity to participate in this free event at last week's Dallas Safari Club (DSC) "Out of the Wild" convention, in collaboration with the Dallas Ecological Foundation's (DEF) Outdoor Adventures Education program.

Succulent forbs withered on the drought-stricken Texas landscape this year, prompting predictions that the health of deer would plummet.  But deer brought to wild game processors have largely been healthy, some carrying good stores of body fat.

The Lone Start State may never be the same since the Mule Deer Foundation (MDF) brought on Charlie Stockstill as Regional Director for Texas. Reminiscent of Captain Woodrow F. Call from the mini-series "Lonesome Dove," Stockstill is an experienced and driven "man of vision."

MidwayUSA, a catalog and Internet retailer offering Just About Everything? for Shooting, Reloading, Gunsmithing and Hunting, is pleased to attend the 2012 Dallas Safari Club (DSC) annual convention as the Official Sponsor of the show.

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.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is seeking proposals from states and U.S. territories interested in obtaining federal financial assistance to acquire land or conduct planning efforts for endangered species conservation.

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.

Nestlé Waters North America recently pledged a gift of $250,000 to Ducks Unlimited to continue support of DU wetland conservation programs in high priority areas like the Gulf Coast.