SIMMS CREEK, 1: Landowners join forces to manage for 
wildlife ... details on Passport to Texas.

PTT from TPW and the Wildlife Restoration Program

Biologist Mike Miller dropped his jaw during at the spring 
meeting of the Simms Creek Wildlife Management 
Association.

[bones rattling] Sorry. At's awright. You're a biologist, not a 
basketball player (laughter) :07 

A little ribbing and a lot of "jawing" went on during the 
annual meeting in Star, Texas. Landowners listened to 
speakers in one room; hunters with leases on their 
property were in another with Miller.

Twenty is a, it's a yearling. Could you tell me what it is that 
you're doing here with the guys? Uh, we're actually taking a 
look at their the deer jawbones from this past season's harvest. 
And I end up writing a harvest summary for the association 
during the summer months. And that's when we kind of revisit 
their goals and objectives, and see how close they got with this 
year's harvest with the goals that are set for them. :24

Don Jackson, founding member of the Simms Creek WMA, 
says one of their goals is managing their land for better 
deer, which they do through Parks & Wildlife's Managed 
Lands Deer Permit Program.

And you have to do a lot of different things to qualify for that. 
You have to run census lines, you have to put in food plots, you 
have to count deer when you go out, and you have to improve 
waterways or improve water systems. And you also have to turn 
in your jawbones as we're doing here for aging. :20

Simms Creek WMA -- improving herds and hunters -- that's 
tomorrow.

That's our show ... with support from the Wildlife 
Restoration Program ... working to improve habitat in 
Texas. 

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.

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