Outlook Fair for Spring Turkey Season
TPWD estimates about 72,000 hunters take part in Texas’ spring turkey season and take about 25,000 gobblers. Most of the state’s spring turkey hunting activity occurs in South Texas and in the Hill Country, where Texas Parks and Wildlife Department turkey program leader Jason Hardin noted timely rainfall could give the bird population a boost.
     Hunters should temper expectations for this spring’s turkey season after back-to-back years of dry conditions negatively impacted nesting success across much of Texas, resulting in fewer gobblers on the ground.  
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THE ARANSAS PROJECT FILES FEDERAL LAWSUIT AGAINST TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY OFFICIALS
FOR ILLEGALLY HARMING ENDANGERED WHOOPING CRANES
     (Corpus Christi, TX — March 11, 2010) The Aransas Project (TAP) filed a federal lawsuit today in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Corpus Christi Division, against several officials of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) in the
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