TPWD TV - AUGUST HIGHLIGHTS: Plenty to see 
on Texas Parks and Wildlife TV...on Passport to Texas.

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

Texas Parks and Wildlife television series is 
especially good this month, with stories of fast 
flying birds and battles of yore and a whole lot more. 
Don Cash is series producer.

The first week there's a story called the Flying 
Photographers. And it's a feature on Sid and Shirley 
Rucker who live in Livingston, Texas, and they are 
just incredible photographers. They spend most of 
their time taking pictures of hummingbirds all over 
the state. The flashes go anywhere from ten thousandths 
of a second to twenty thousandths of a second. 
The second week we've got a story on the Bass Brigades,
a camp for kids, teaching them how to communicate about
nature. The third week of August we've got a story called 
underground history, and it's on the work being done by 
the staff archeologists here at Texas Parks and Wildlife 
department in the state parks of Texas. The fourth week 
of August is a really interesting story called A Spirit 
Rises. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is working 
with several of the native American tribes to discover 
some of the history that will tell the story of the battle 
of Palo Duro Canyon. What we're trying to do here is to 
bring in both the native American perspective, and to 
collect data that can add detail and scope to the overall 
story. The last week of August, we go pier fishing along 
the coast. It's really interesting to go to all the 
different places. You never know what you're going to catch. 


The Texas Parks and Wildlife Television series airs on 
PBS stations. Check your local listings.

That's our show for today ... For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... 
I'm Cecilia Nasti