Tag: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD)

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Commission on Jan. 25 will consider exchanging 43 acres of Boca Chica State Park for 477 acres of land on Highway 100 between Laguna Vista and Laguna Heights from SpaceX.

HARLINGEN — Neighborhoods around Vestal Park might be getting their first trail, a 6.2-mile asphalt ribbon tying much of the area together.

Cameron County Commissioners Court has authorized a five-year update to its Comprehensive Parks, Recreation and Open Space Master Plan.

AUSTIN — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) will close red snapper fishing in state waters on Monday, Nov. 20, at 11:59 p.m. until January 2024. Federal waters remain closed until the summer.

BROWNSVILLE — Wanna go camping?

Red-crowned parrots, an endangered species native to northeast Mexico, have found a new and safer home in parts of South Texas, according to a new study led by researchers at Texas A&M University.

Registration for the annual Red Tide Ranger training is open for the classroom instruction that will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 30, at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Coastal Studies Lab at 100 Marine Lab Drive, in Isla Blanca Park, on South Padre Island.

Officials with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department have announced that red tide has recently been detected along the Texas coastline, including at two locations off South Padre Island.

A severely malnourished and declawed bobcat found in a central McAllen neighborhood this weekend has been euthanized.

HARLINGEN — Winding across some of the city's most rugged stretches of Tamaulipan thorn forest, the Arroyo Colorado is making way for Harlingen's first kayak launch.