Passport to Texas

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife and the Wildlife Restoration Program

Let’s say you want to learn how to hunt, but you don’t have family or friends to teach you. What do you do? You attend the first-of-its-kind skill-building workshop for novice hunters.

Called Hunt Texas—The Basics. And it’s designed to provide new hunters with the basic skills needed to successfully pursue a variety of game species.

Linda Campbell is Program Director of the Private Lands and Public Hunting Program. In May, Parks and Wildlife Commissioners approved a Mentored Hunting Permit, thus clearing the way for these multi-day workshops.

Workshops will be developed locally by our field staff. They will be held on a WMA. Our first one is planned for the Justin Hurst WMA, down on the coast; it’s going to occur in September.

Firearm selection, game processing, dove hunting techniques and hunting license requirements are among the workshop topics. A hunting license will be required to participate, as will a $25 Mentored Hunting Permit.

This is on a first come, first served reservation basis. Of course, they’ve got to limit the number of people that can participate so that they can provide real hands on training. And so, to do that right, we’ll limit the number of folks participating.

Find information about the first workshop, scheduled for September 19 & 20 at passporttotexas.org.

That’s our show… with support from the Wildlife Restoration Program…providing funding for the Private Lands and Public Hunting Program.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti.

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