BTTH 2018: Support important conservation work when you enter the Big Time Texas Hunts drawing …details ahead on Passport to Texas… This is Passport to Texas When you enter Big Time Texas Hunts, enter for a chance to win one of ten premium hunt packages while also supporting conservation. 11— Big Time Texas Hunts is a conservation fundraiser, basically. We try to raise money that we can put directly back into wildlife conservation work on our wildlife management areas and all of our public hunting lands across the state. Justin Dreibelbis is TPW’s program director for private lands and public hunting. BTTH includes 10 premium hunt packages for a wide range of game animals. 16— The easiest way to buy chances for the hunt is to go onto our TPW website and search Big Time Texas Hunts. There you’ll find opportunities for all 10 of these hunt packages. And you can buy as many as you want online; they’re nine dollars apiece. There’s a $5 online administration fee, but it allows unlimited entries in a single transaction. 25—Right off the top every year, a portion of that money goes into our desert bighorn sheep program. It pays for surveys and a lot of that translocation work. We’re trying to put new populations in new mountain ranges in West Texas where they originally occurred. It also goes directly back to our Wildlife management areas for habitat projects. It includes all kinds of access improvements for our public hunters. So, it’s all going back to things that our public hunters care about. The deadline to enter Big Time Texas Hunts is October 15th. Find complete details on the TPW website. For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti. Total sound bite time: 0:52.0 Maximum Script time: 0:33.0 Suggested show time: 86.0 = 1:26