TPW TV -- NEW SEASON 2014: A new season of the great 
Texas outdoors headed to a PBS stations near you ... 
details coming up on Passport to Texas ... 

This is Passport to Texas

Every October for the past 29 years TPW has kicked off a 
new season of programming on its PBS TV series.

03 -- Not a lot of states do this kind of television show anymore.

Series producer, Don Cash, says this type of programming 
reaches diverse populations. 

08 -- Especially when it's broadcast as many places as this one 
is, it's just a great way for people to learn about Texas and the 
Texas outdoors.

Story topics have remained constant during the show's 
tenure, with some fine-tuning for an evolving audience.

16 -- More and more people are living in the bigger cities, and 
therefore, fewer people have ready access to parks and hunting 
opportunities and fishing opportunities. And so, the kind of 
stories we're doing tends to focus on nature in urban areas.

The new season of TPW PBS TV series will introduce 
viewers to Texas' places, people, outdoor opportunities, 
and - of course - it's stunning wildlife.

26 -- One is on trapping and tracking whooping cranes at 
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. We're going to Caddo Lake as 
biologists try to restore paddlefish to the area. People may not 
know this, but there are bobcats in the Dallas area. We're 
talking in the city. We've got a story on that coming up. And, 
some of the video on bobcats hanging out in city parks with 
people is pretty interesting.

The new season of the TPW TV series begins airing on 
PBS stations statewide this month; check your local 
listings. The WSFR Program supports our series.

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



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