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Border badness, heat-related tragedy and other game wardens tales from a...
Sifting through the weekly reports of cases and incidents worked by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game wardens, it’s hard not to think of a much-repeated quote attributed to Albert Einstein:...
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Game warden cases: Poisoned vultures, lack of licenses and yet another case...
February might seem like it would be a slow time for Texas game wardens. After all, most of the major hunting seasons are over and the unsettled and often chilly/windy/rainy weather keeps most anglers...
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Game warden cases: Shearing sharks’ fins and other sins often driven by dollars
Money, not surprisingly, drives almost all of the most egregious and highest-volume wildlife- or fisheries-related crimes. With dollars and lots of them to be made in the commercial fish/wildlife trade...
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Game Warden cases: Gators, poachers and peoples’ poor judgment
We’re coming to the end of alligator mating season, and Texas game wardens almost certainly are glad of it. Beginning as early as March (if the weather’s warm) and lasting through May, gators engage in...
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Game warden cases: There’s a reason we need National Safe Boating Week
Sadly, it’s not difficult to tell when warming late-spring weather triggers a surge of recreational boating activity on Texas’ lakes, rivers and bays. The evidence is there to read in the weekly field...
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Game warden cases: Imitating a warden, selling squirrels and other bad ideas
During a recent light-hearted exchange involving a high-ranking Texas game warden, one of the folks in the conversation mentioned something about a game warden giving someone a citation for violating...
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Game warden cases: Found fawn, fisticuffs, botched boating and the usual...
Holiday weekends during warm-weather months are all-hands-on-deck affairs for the 500 or so Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game wardens. Charged by the Texas Legislature as the primary law...
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Game warden cases: Crazy from the heat? Why else would one stuff a dead deer...
Game wardens patrol on the Trinity River recently. (Shannon Tompkins/Chronicle) Maybe it’s the heat. That’s what I’d really like to believe is behind some of the incidents in this week’s selection of...
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Game warden cases: Mountain lion reports, criminals caught on Facebook and...
September may well be the busiest month for Texas game wardens. Fishing and boating are just as popular as they were during much of the summer, and officers have to spend considerable time patrolling...
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Burned bearings and a badly behaving Bobcat offer bit of levity in Texas game...
In the outdoors, as everywhere, things sometimes are not what they seem. That group of sea gulls hovering and diving into the bay look for all the world to be birds pouncing on shrimp being pursued by...
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