STATE PARK GUIDE, 1: Hot off the presses, your guide to 
getting the most out of your time in Texas state parks ... 
details ahead on Passport to Texas.
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Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

Whether you're already a state park enthusiast, or 
discovering these natural jewels for the first time, with 
the Texas State Park Guide in hand, you'll get the most 
out of your outdoors experience.

It's intended to be a ready reference related to the hundred and 
nineteen units of the state park system. :06

Walt Dabney is State Parks Director at Texas Parks and 
Wildlife.

It hopefully is something that you would use repeatedly 
throughout the year. Keep it in your glove compartment or in a 
handy place, and use it to plan your trips, look at a given park 
that maybe you haven't been to before to see what's there ... :14

Almost anything you like to do outdoors, you can enjoy at 
a Texas state park.

If you like to go our and do things in the out of doors, the parks 
are one of the primary locations you have to do those kinds of 
things. So whether you're a horse user, or a fisherman, or a 
camper, or a hiker, or a bird watcher, or a photographer -- 
whatever it is - parks are where you have to go enjoy those 
things. :18

We'll have more on the 2006 State Park Guide tomorrow.

You can get the state park guide at any one of the parks. :03

That's our show for today ... thank you for joining us ... our 
engineers are Bruce Biermann and Joel Block ... for Texas 
Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.