OUTDOOR NEWSLETTERS,2: Delivering the best of Texas to 
your inbox ... details Ahead on Passport to Texas.

This is Passport to Texas

When you sign up for free e-newsletters from Texas Parks 
and Wildlife, you're signing up for multi-media outdoor 
adventures delivered to your inbox.

03 -- It's a really fun way to find out about what's going on.
 
Darcy Bontempo, Marketing Director at TPW, says the e-
newsletters give subscribers more than a list of outdoor 
activities.

11 -- Also learning about conservation, about wildlife. People love 
stories about animals and all the critters in Texas. So, this is a 
really easy way to get the information to them, but it's also fun to 
read.

The free e-newsletters from Texas Parks and Wildlife can 
help to streamline your interactions with the agency.

21 -- [If you] Read a story on a state park and you're interested in 
going there, you just can click right there and go right to our 
online reservation system [and] make a reservation. Or, if you 
read a fishing story, and you want to buy a fishing license, or you 
might see a promotion about the horned lizard license plate, or 
one of our other license plates; you go directly online and buy. 
So, it's real convenient, and you know you even can do it from 
your smart phone. So, it's pretty cool.

Tailor the newsletters to your interests and get as much 
as you want of what you want.

24 -- If we have an event about biking, and they've said they're 
interested in biking, we can send them something specifically 
about that. Also, if they've said they'd like us to text their Smart 
Phone -- once we're able to do that -- we'll be able to text them if 
there's some important breaking news. Also, they can opt out at 
any time; they can change their profile at any time, so if they find 
they're getting too much or too little information, they can just go 
right online to their subscription profile and change it.

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

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