YOUTH HUNTERS: A youth hunting program that 
encourages kids to teach what they learn ... we'll 
explain on Passport to Texas.

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

Hunting is a tradition passed down from generation 
to generation. Yet, what options are available to boys 
and girls who want to learn about hunting, but don't 
have a family member to teach them? In Texas, we have a 
youth hunting program.

"We offer a Texas youth hunting program through 
Parks and Wildlife and the Texas Wildlife Association."

Heidi Rao is a hunter education coordinator from 
Dickinson. 

"This is a program that offers youth hunting 
opportunities to those of the ages between nine 
and seventeen. They go through the hunter education 
course, and then they have opportunities to go 
on a variety of youth hunts that are guided by trained 
hunt masters."

With the proper training, even young hunters can become 
volunteer hunter education instructors.

"We have an assistant hunter education instructor 
program for those who are between the ages fifteen and 
twenty. They have to go through the same requirements 
as a full instructor, such as the student course, 
the game warden interview, and the instructor course. 
The only other requirement that we have is that our 
assistant instructors has to team teach with a full 
instructor, who's at least twenty-one years of age. 
When that assistant turns twenty-one, if they are still 
active, we will roll them over, and they will become a 
full instructor."

Learn more about youth hunting, and assistant 
hunter education opportunities at passporttotexas.org.

That's our show. Made possible by a grant from the Sport Fish and 
Wildlife restoration Program ... for Texas Parks and Wildlife ... 
I'm Cecilia Nasti.