Passport to Texas

TPW TV: Sea Grass and Flats Boats Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

If you’re headed to the coast this summer with your flats boat, watch the Texas Parks and Wildlife PBS Television series in June for a segment to help keep you from damaging sea grass with your motor’s propeller. Series producer, Don Cash:

62—A flats boat is a very shallow boat that you use in very shallow water. But there are some things that you need to know before you take your flats boat out there.

The title of the story is A Scar on the Flats. It airs on the PBS stations here in Texas the week of June 10th through the 16th, and you can also see it on our YouTube Channel.

Thanks Don.

The Wild.ife and Sport Fish Restoration program supports our series and funds conservation projects in Texas.

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

TPW TV: Owl Be Seeing You Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

[Great horned owl call]

A great horned owl nesting in a residential window box became an instant sensation with neighborhood kids. See what all the excitement was about when you tune in this month to the The Texas Parks and Wildlife PBS TV series. Producer, Abe Moore.

56—We got a strange call from somebody that said we have a great horned owl nest in our windowsill here in Katy Prairie. They’d always go like ‘who who, who who’ in my chimney. It’s just awesome. It was becoming the talk of the town, so we had to go out there and check it out. Owls get a bad rap often, and these owls are a great example of living in harmony with the homeowner and the neighborhood. This nest was right on a planter box, up on a window—right next to this cute little park. So, the kids would just come out and enjoy nature’s wonder right in front of them, and it was pretty neat. Two babies have hatched@ I see them! I see them! It’s white and fluffy and fluffy and white! They’re rising…they’re rising…they’re rising! Oh my word! So, it was a very cool outdoor classroom type of situation. And if you want to see the story and check out the owls, that’s going to be on Texas Parks and Wildlife Television June third through the seventh.

Thanks Abe.

Check your local listings for the show.

The WSFR program supports our series and funds conservation projects in Texas.

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

TPW TV: Shooting for State Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

[…pull…*shotgun*.]

When the Texas Legislature gave schools the green light to sponsor off-campus shooting sports, lots of kids jumped at the chance. A segment on this month TPW PBS TV series called Shooting for State gives viewers a chance to see these kids in action. Producer, Karen Loke.

44—These students can do anything from football, cheer-leading or nothing at all. Shooting sports is good for everybody.

Every student must take a hunter education safety class before they can even participate—so it’s very safe. I’ve heard that these students that take shooting sports are more responsible. It encompasses all of the aspects of what school is supposed to be about.

Thanks, Karen.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife TV Show featuring this segment airs the week of May 20th. Check your local listings.

The Wildlife Restoration Program supports our series, and works to increase shooting sports in Texas.

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

TPW TV: Lone Star Land Stewards Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The majority of Texas land is in private hands, which makes landowner’s key to its preservation. All this month the TPW TV series recognizes the efforts of those who won LSLS awards, including Blue Mountain Peak Ranch in the Texas Hill Country. Series Producer, Don Cash.

51—They’re taking this old land that’s been abused and misused, and taking it back to what it used to be.

If you happen to miss the show, you can go to our YouTube site. All of our Lone Star Land Steward videos are there for you to see any time you’d like.

Thanks, Don.

The Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program supports our series, and funds conservation projects in Texas.

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

TPW TV: Warden of the County Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Jim Daniels’ is a game warden in Region 6. His territory: nearly 2-thousand square miles across King and Knox counties, north of Abilene, an area of only 4-thousand residents.

06—You know, I didn’t know a soul up here when I moved up here. I mean, there was a whole bunch of unknown. I knew I was ready to get to work.

This month the Texas Parks and Wildlife PBS TV series airs a segment that features Daniels called Warden of the County. Ron Kabele produced the story.

14—The very first thing I shot with Jim…he went in to just do an inspection of the hunting camp. Game wardens, they have to do a lot of dangerous stuff. You know, you’re one person and you walk into a place and there are twenty some odd people and all of them have shotguns.

On this day, the hunters were a law-abiding group.

09—How’s it going guys? [How ya doin’?] How are you, sir? [Just fine; how’re you?] Where you guys from? [Michigan.] Michigan? [Yeah.] You got your license with you? [Yeah.].

Producer Ron Kabele says viewers will get to know Game Warden Daniels, and his character.

12—It’s a portrait of a guy who does something that he really believes in—in a place that’s very desolate. You really have to love your job to be able to be effective doing it in this kind of environment.

The segment of the Texas Parks and Wildlife TV series airs the week of April 15 on PBS stations in Texas…or on YouTube now.

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