Written: 04/08/2009 15:54 by: Texas Outdoors View

Last summer Texas A&M research scientist and professor Dr. Jim Heilman released a report showing that Ashe Junipers, a.k.a. cedar trees, aren’t really the water hogs that people think they are. According to Heilman, “People have this idea that trees are suction pumps, that if you have all of this l...

Written: 03/27/2009 22:16 by: Texas Outdoors View

Pack the binoculars and wing it to one of these seven perches, from the Big Thicket to Weslaco World travelers migrate to the Texas coast for the astounding variety of birds that congregate here. Yet birding remains a mystery to many Americans. It shouldn’t be. You don’t have to spend a fortun...

Written: 06/08/2007 09:07 by: Texas Outdoors View

East Texas Food Plot Plan for the Parrish Property (June 2005 –May 2006)             More Deer, Bigger Deer… Period! Prepared by Wildlife Biologist John Schwarzlose, June 9th, 2005 on behalf of TEXLA Wildlife   Before coming to work for Texas Wildlife Unlimi...

Written: 05/16/2007 11:28 by: Texas Outdoors View

(From Europe) This is a feral hog that has been released into the wild. This hog comes in all colors ranging from black, white, red, brown, or spotted. The mature males have tusks protruding from the upper and lower gums. The lower tusks are measured for the book. A large male can weigh over 400 p...

Written: 05/16/2007 10:06 by: Texas Outdoors View

(From Europe) This hog is brownish black with split hairs at the end. The snout is long and straight. Mature males can have 4 inches of tusks protruding from the lower jaw. There will usually be about 4 inches inside the jaw also. A large male can weigh 300 pounds, while a female will weigh about 1...

Written: 04/06/2007 12:27 by: Texas Outdoors View

The pronghorn is one of our more desirable game species, but despite extensive management efforts it has been decreasing in numbers in recent years.  The estimated statewide population in 1990 was 13,920 and the 1989 harvest by hunters was 543.

Written: 04/05/2007 10:51 by: Texas Outdoors View

These slender, "white-sided" skunks occur along stream courses where they resort to rocky ledges or tangles of streamside vegetation for safety.  Occasionally they resort to burrows in the banks of washes.

Written: 04/05/2007 10:37 by: Texas Outdoors View

All evidence suggests this skunk is extremely rare and in need of protection.  Most records are from biological surveys of the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s, and there is a growing consensus among professional mammalogists that the population level of this species in Texas has declined drastically during the past few decades.

Written: 04/05/2007 10:29 by: Texas Outdoors View

The largest populations occur in rocky, sparsely timbered areas such as the Edwards Plateau of central Texas and the Chisos, Davis, and Guadalupe mountains of Trans-Pecos Texas.  A few have been reported from the Big Thicket area of East Texas, but these are apparently extirpated now.

Written: 03/27/2007 09:38 by: Texas Outdoors View

  Feral pigs, Sus scrofa Linnaeus , in Texas are descended from introductions of European wild hogs for sporting purposes, and from escaped domestic swine that have established feral populations. European wild hogs have several distinguishing characteristics that set them apart from domestic or f...

Written: 03/17/2007 15:52 by: Texas Outdoors View

In Texas, collared peccaries (often called "javelinas") occupy the brushy semidesert where prickly pear is a conspicuous part of the flora. They are commonly found in dense thickets of prickly pear, chaparral, scrub oak, or guajillo; also in rocky canyons where caverns and hollows afford protection and in barren wastelands. Peccaries are active mainly in early morning and late afternoon and often bed down in dense brush or prickly pear thickets during the heat of midday.

Written: 03/13/2007 17:57 by: Texas Outdoors View

Formerly widespread throughout the state; the black bear is now restricted to remnant populations in mountainous areas of the Trans-Pecos region.