TPWD TV – August Highlights
Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife
Texas Parks and Wildlife television series is especially good this month, with stories of fast flying birds and battles of yore and a whole lot more. Don Cash is series producer.
The first week there’s a story called the Flying Photographers. And it’s a feature on Sid and Shirley Rucker who live in Livingston, Texas, and they are just incredible photographers. They spend most of their time taking pictures of hummingbirds all over the state.
The flashes go anywhere from ten thousandths of a second to twenty thousandths of a second.
The second week we’ve got a story on the Bass Brigades, a camp for kids, teaching them how to communicate about nature.
The third week of August we’ve got a story called underground history, and it’s on the work being done by the staff archaeologists here at Texas Parks and Wildlife department in the state parks of Texas.
The fourth week of August is a really interesting story called A Spirit Rises. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is working with several of the native American tribes to discover some of the history that will tell the story of the battle of Palo Duro Canyon.
What we’re trying to do here is to bring in both the native American perspective, and to collect data that can add detail and scope to the overall story.
The last week of August, we go pier fishing along the coast. It’s really interesting to go to all the different places. You never know what you’re going to catch.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Television series airs on PBS stations. Check your local listings.
That’s our show for today… For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti
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Texas Parks and Wildlife on PBS and Cable
Stations and Air Times
Times and dates are subject to change, especially during PBS membership drives.
- Amarillo, KACV-TV, Channel 2: October–March, Saturday 6 p.m.
- Austin, KLRU-TV, Channel 18: Monday, 12:30 p.m.; Friday 5:30 a.m.; Sunday, 9 a.m. KLRU2, Cable 20: Tuesday, 11 p.m.
- Bryan-College Station, KAMU-TV, Channel 15: Sunday, 5 p.m.; Thursday, 7 p.m.
- Corpus Christi, KEDT-TV, Channel 16: Sunday, 12 p.m.; Friday, 2 p.m.
- Dallas-Fort Worth, KERA-TV, Channel 13: October–March, Saturday, 6 p.m. Also serving Abilene, Denton, Longview, Marshall, San Angelo, Texarkana, Tyler, Wichita Falls and Sherman.
- El Paso, KCOS-TV, Channel 13: Saturday, 3 p.m.
- Harlingen, KMBH-TV, Channel 60: Sunday, 5 p.m. Also serving McAllen, Mission and Brownsville.
- Houston, KUHT-TV, Channel 8: Saturday, 3:30 p.m.; Friday 1:30 p.m. Also serving Beaumont, Port Arthur, Galveston, Texas City and Victoria.
- Killeen, KNCT-TV, Channel 46: Sunday, 5 p.m. Also serving Temple.
- Lubbock, KTXT-TV, Channel 5: Saturday, 10 a.m.
- Odessa-Midland, KPBT-TV, Channel 36: Saturday, 4:30 p.m.
- San Antonio and Laredo, KLRN-TV, Channel 9: Sunday, 1 p.m.
- Waco, KWBU-TV, Channel 34: Saturday, 3 p.m.
- Portales, New Mexico, KENW-TV, Channel 3: Sunday, 2:30 p.m.
- The New York Network, NYN, Thursday 8:30 p.m.; Saturday 2:30 p.m. Serving the Albany area.
Cable
Texas Parks & Wildlife can also be seen on a variety of government, educational and access cable channels in the following communities: Abilene, Allen, Atlanta, Boerne, Collin County Community College, Coppell, Del Mar College, Denton, Flower Mound, Frisco, Garland, Irving, McKinney, North Richland Hills, Plano, Rogers State University, Texarkana College, The Colony, Tyler, Waco and Wichita Falls. Check your local listings for days and times.
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