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Robert Solis and his son Jose sit behind a hunting blind as they participate in a Texas youth hunting program in Cameron County on the opening weekend of the white-tailed deer hunting season in November.

Young Guns: Youth hunting program offers lessons for families in the field

RYAN HENRY
Texas Parks & Wildlife Department Game Warden Jarret Barker pilots an airboat while on patrol recently in Cameron County.

Game wardens take on security responsibilities at the border

JACQUELINE ARMENDARIZ

Authorities target Texas deer smugglers

CINDY HORSWELL, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
The best food for deer is natural vegetation, but during severe drought many savvy landowners supplement the habitat with protein feed. Despite the costs, supplemental feeders attract deer to property and help them reach their genetic potential, experts say.

Surviving the Drought

Many big bucks remain despite Texas' scorching summer
RYAN HENRY
This 2011 photo provided by Donald Waters shows a fish harvested from the Gulf of Mexico with unusual lesions and infections. Two years after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank, touching off the worst offshore spill in U.S. history, the latest research into its effects is starting to back up those early reports from the docks: The ailing fish bear hallmarks of diseases tied to petroleum and other pollutants. (AP Photo/Courtesy Donald Waters)

2 years later, fish sick near BP oil spill site

CAIN BURDEAU, ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this April 6, 2012, photo provided by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Ronald Kyle Johnson, of Abilene, Texas, holds the largemouth bass he caught at O.H. Ivie Reservoir near San Angelo, Texas. The fish was 13.36 pounds 27.5 inches long and 20 inches in girth. Still-parched West Texas has one little lake from which a couple of fisherman lately have pulled some sizable fish. (AP Photo/ Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Larry D. Hodge)

Big fish found in low West Texas lake

BETSY BLANEY,ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lionfish are relentless predators that feed on recreationally and economically important reef fish, such as juvenile red snapper and grouper, and algae-eating species like parrotfish that keep reefs clean and healthy.

Lions and tigers: Too much to bear?

TEXAS SEA GRANT COLLEGE PROGRAM

Texas Parks & Wildlife starts online fishing magazine

SOUTH TEXAS OUTDOORS
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Allen Salinas and Branden Roberts enjoy “another day at the office” as they cruise across the Lower Laguna Madre while fishing from their 17-foot bay boat. The two men are marketing a line of products from South Padre Island called Logic Lures.

Fishing with Logic

Island firm rethinks traditional lure
STEVE CLARK
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Right equipment a must when fishing the bay

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Texas Parks & Wildlife starts online fishing magazine

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FILE - This Oct. 2008, file photo, provided by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation shows a brown bat with white nose fungus in New York. Federal officials are granting $1.4 million to scientists investigating deadly white-nose syndrome in bats. The fungal infection has killed more than 5.5 million bats in eastern North America since it was first detected in upstate New York in 2006. (AP Photo/New York Department of Environmental Conservation, Ryan von Linden, File)

Study: Fungus behind bat die-off came from Europe

ALICIA CHANG,AP SCIENCE WRITER

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