A New Home For The Bighorns. A helicopter whips along the sheer face of Elephant Mountain, a mesa rising 2,000 feet above the West Texas desert, as its pilot scans the cliffside for desert bighorn sheep. The stockily built animals weigh between 150 and 300 pounds and show surprising agility as they use their powerful hind legs to hurl themselves across these steep, …

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2024-25 Drawn Hunts now available. The Texas Public Hunt Drawing System provides opportunities to apply for a wide variety of supervised, drawn hunts including special drawings for both adults and youth hunters on TPWD managed lands as well as specially leased properties.

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The Honorable Oliver J. Bell. Vice-Chairman. Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission P. O. Box 640 Cleveland, TX 77328. Oliver J. Bell was appointed to the Commission by Governor Greg Abbott on November 15, 2018 and was reappointed by Governor Greg Abbott to another six-year term which will expire on February 1, 2029.

The Annual Public Hunting Permit (also known as walk-in) provides nearly year-round hunting on nearly one million acres of land. Hunt white-tailed deer, feral hogs, dove, quail, turkey, waterfowl, rabbit, squirrel and more on more than 180 hunting areas, including wildlife management areas, state parks and approximately 120 dove and small game areas leased from private landowners.