Passport to Texas

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife and the Wildlife Restoration Program

Jake “Bud” Dearing, has worked tirelessly to produce quality white-tailed deer on his ranch through the Parks and Wildlife Managed Lands Deer Program.

We got plenty of good deer here. They need a little push, a little help.

The Dearing Ranch, in Northern Erath County, stretches across 1400 acres, and has a 15-acre bass lake. Walking along one of the property’s many trails, Dearing points to a healthy stand of waist-high vegetation.

Right here we have this skunk bush, and I’m, and I’m proud of it. We have, uh, lots of it, and it’s one of the better foods for deer in this country. It is very important in a deer’s diet.

And deer get their fill at this all-you-can-eat buffet. Steve Whisenant works alongside the 78-year-old rancher.

I’ve worked with him on it since day one. And it’s just part of us. We’ve put a lot of our life into it. A lot of work, and it’s beginning to pay off now. He’s got world class game here; bass, turkey, white-tail deer. It’s just a dream for a sportsman or wildlife person.

Dearing says he’s not ready to slow down, because he’s having too much fun managing his land.

I enjoy it more since y’all have pointed things out to me that…I’d never thought about.

The Dearing Ranch earned the Lone Star Land Steward award for the Cross-Timbers and Prairies Eco-Region.

That’s our show…with support from the Wildlife Restoration Program…For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti.
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The Dearing Ranch
http://www.dearingranchtrophywhitetails.com/

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Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife and the Wildlife Restoration Program

[birds] I’ll be seventy-eight years old in a week or two, and I’m having more fun now than I ever had in my life. I’m getting to do for a hobby what I used to have to scratch out a living out of. [dog barking]

Jake “Bud” Dearing has spent over thirty years piecing together fourteen hundred acres of north Texas cross timber land devoted to native Texas Wildlife.

I love my wildlife. I love deer. We try to use what the good Lord provided us. And then whatever we don’t have, then we try to supplement it, and we’ve come up with some very good deer.

He purchased the original land in the seventies with a veteran’s loan, and spent the next five years adding to his acreage. His land management goal is to improve plant diversity to benefit a variety of wildlife, which he has done with the help of Texas Parks and Wildlife.

Mr. Dearing is an extremely good partner with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

James Edwards is a Parks and Wildlife Biologist.

His openness and willingness to manage his land the way that it needs to be managed is one of the biggest assets that he has.

The Dearing Ranch earned the Lone Star Land Steward award for the Cross-Timbers and Prairies Eco-Region. Tomorrow: successful land management.

Y’all have pointed things out to me that I never thought about.

That’s our show…with support from the Wildlife Restoration Program…providing funding for the Private Lands and Public Hunting Program.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti.
__________________________________________________________

The Dearing Ranch
http://www.dearingranchtrophywhitetails.com

Lone Star Land Steward Cross Timbers & Prairies, 1 Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife and the Wildlife Restoration Program

[birds] I’ll be seventy-eight years old in a week or two, and I’m having more fun now than I ever had in my life. I’m getting to do for a hobby what I used to have to scratch out a living out of. [dog barking]

Jake “Bud” Dearing has spent over thirty years piecing together fourteen hundred acres of north Texas cross timber land devoted to native Texas Wildlife.

I love my wildlife. I love deer. We try to use what the good Lord provided us. And then whatever we don’t have, then we try to supplement it, and we’ve come up with some very good deer.

He purchased the original land in the seventies with a veteran’s loan, and spent the next five years adding to his acreage. His land management goal is to improve plant diversity to benefit a variety of wildlife, which he has done with the help of Texas Parks and Wildlife.

Mr. Dearing is an extremely good partner with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

James Edwards is a Parks and Wildlife Biologist.

His openness and willingness to manage his land the way that it needs to be managed is one of the biggest assets that he has.

The Dearing Ranch earned the Lone Star Land Steward award for the Cross-Timbers and Prairies Eco-Region. Tomorrow: successful land management.

Y’all have pointed things out to me that I never thought about.

That’s our show…with support from the Wildlife Restoration Program…providing funding for the Private Lands and Public Hunting Program.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti.
__________________________________________________________

The Dearing Ranch
http://www.dearingranchtrophywhitetails.com

Lone Star Land Steward Cross Timbers & Prairies, 1 Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife and the Sport Fish and Wildlife Restoration Program

Because of our quality habitat, Texas is the winter destination of migrating waterfowl traveling through the central flyway.

And those birds are scattered from the High Plains all the way to the Laguna Madre.

Everything changes this winter; waterfowl will have to scatter farther a field because of habitat devastation wrought by Hurricane Ike along the Texas coast.

The devastation was tremendous, particularly in the mid to upper coast. Add to the fact there’s not much food out there. It’s going to be difficult for them.

Waterfowl program leader, Dave Morrison says we will have ducks in Texas this winter, although their distribution will change. Waterfowl season goes on as usual, but hunters must be flexible.

From a duck hunting perspective, there is a lot that people need to consider simply because the devastation was tremendous. So, people that are used to going out duck hunting, used to following this canal, this trail, to where their hunting lease is—that thing may have barbed wire fences across it, there may be barges out there…there’s going to be debris from all the people that lost their homes. There’s going to be a lot of things that people are going to have to contend with if they want to go hunting.

Tomorrow: something positive from the storm.

That’s our show… with support from the Sport Fish and Wildlife Restoration program… providing funding for wetland conservation through the Private Lands Enhancement Program.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti.

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Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

Texas Parks and Wildlife Television gets thematic in October. Production Supervisor, Don Cash, explains.

The first show in October deals with bats. Where to go see bats, and the monetary value that bats have. One of the shows is a fishing show. We go to the Texas coast, and we feature a fishing guide up at lake Fork, a guy named Brian Duplechain, who is just a great guy, and a great guide.

One day Butch Ray called and said, I’ve got a guide trip. Shore enough, and I jumped on that opportunity. The first cast that morning, my customer had a backlash; the second cast he caught an eight and a half pounder. He caught a big fish. That made me a guide.

Another one of our theme shows has to do with hunting. One of the stories is about a dog named call and his trainer Linda Palmer, and it’s just a great story about how she takes this dog from three months all the way up to a year. It’s a story about the relationship between the trainer and the dog.

He watched the whole thing, made sure everything was recorded in his brain, brought the bird in, and then, of course, went to get the other one.

So, if you’ve got an interest in hunting, or fishing, or bats, you’ve got a whole show that you can look at and really get in depth with it.

Thanks Don. Find a list of stations that air the series, at passporttotexas.org.

That’s our show for today…we record our series at the Production Block studios in Austin, Texas.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti.

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