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Texas will unveil its newest state park with a guided hike on New Year’s Day

Palo Pinto Mountains State Park in North Texas will open sometime next year. Visitors can reserve spots for a sneak peek on New Year’s Day.

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Texas buys land for new state parks that will be developed using $1 billion voter-approved fund

The fund opens a new era of public land acquisition and park development for Texas, which ranks 35th nationally in state park acreage per capita.

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Texas’ battle against deer disease threatens breeding industry

Texas has seen a record number of chronic wasting disease cases this year. The state is looking for new ways to contain the spread without driving deer breeders out of business.

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Texas Exotic Hunts Are Dangerously Unregulated

Some hunting ranches in Texas routinely offer hunts of endangered or threatened exotic species. This should not be allowed.

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The SpaceX Land Swap Is Only the Latest Texas Public Park Giveaway

Does the state parks agency serve the people, or corporate interests?

Texas Observer

Hunter safety has come a long way in Texas; record-low accidents

Only one hunter died as a result of a hunting accident in 2023. That's down from 30 fatalities in 1972.

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Texas greenlights negotiations with SpaceX for Boca Chica State Park land exchange

Monday’s vote lets Texas Parks and Wildlife staff begin negotiations to swap 43 acres in the park for 477 acres next to a federal wildlife refuge.

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A Texas man claimed he saw a black panther in his backyard. Wildlife authorities say it was a house cat

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said the black feline-like figure was likely a house cat

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State abandons effort to take back Fairfield Lake State Park land

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will stop pursuing eminent domain to take over the former park property south of Dallas. A private developer plans to turn it into a luxury subdivision.

The Texas Tribune

The Fish Whisperer

Half of the fish in the Mission-Aransas Estuary vocalize. One scientist is dedicated to recording and decoding their sounds.

Texas Observer

Fear and worry shadow Texas oyster fishermen as another season begins with few reefs open

Despite fishermen’s wishes to delay the season in hopes that oyster reefs recover from years of environmental stress, the state pushed ahead with a Nov. 1 start.

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Toxic red tide algae, last seen in 2018, returns to Texas coast

Areas of the Texas Gulf Coast are seeing blooms of the algae, which can make people sick and kill fish.

The Texas Tribune

Girl Scout troop have lucky escape as alligator charges them while swimming in Texas state park

‘I was thinking, this is the day I die’, Texas Girl Scouts says as they were fleeing from huge alligator

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Dallas developer starts construction at former Fairfield Lake State Park despite threat of land seizure

Todd Interests, which plans to turn the former park into a high-end subdivision, has a week left to respond to the state’s final offer for the property.

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Texas Parks and Wildlife Department opts for eminent domain to save Fairfield Lake State Park

With only three days left on the state’s lease, the agency unanimously voted to condemn almost 5,000 acres in Freestone County in an effort to keep the park open to the public after developers purchased the property to build a gated community.

The Texas Tribune

Fairfield Lake State Park closes again as land sale negotiations fail

The state is now considering seizing the land to save the park after its purchase offer was rejected by a Dallas developer.

The Texas Tribune

Texas parks officials want to buy Fairfield Lake State Park land after losing their lease

Texas parks officials said they are taking “all necessary steps” to purchase the land and save Fairfield Lake State Park from being turned into a luxury gated community and golf course.

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Texans to decide on state parks funding in November

The Texas Legislature took the final vote to send a constitutional amendment establishing the Centennial Parks Conservation Fund to voters in November. The trust fund would consist of money appropriated to the fund by the legislature; gifts, grants, and donations received for the fund; and investment earnings on interest earned.…

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Texas Observer

Farewell to a Beloved State Park

Texans—already starved for public land—have bid adieu to a well-visited patch of parkland between Dallas and Houston.

LiveScience

Cottonmouth snakes: Facts about water moccasins

Cottonmouth snakes, also known as water moccasins, are venomous snakes found throughout the southeastern U.S. that can be identified by the white color in their mouths.

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