White-tailed deer and quail hunting season starts in Texas today. The two animals are among the most popular game animals in the state, and hunters in Texas have a roughly three-month season ahead of ...

No state has more white-tailed deer than Texas. That makes it one of the best places in the world to observe a wild ritual known as the deer rut—the annual mating season. Each fall, bucks throw ...

It’s showtime for Texas deer hunters. The 2024-25 general hunting season for white-tailed deer opened statewide at 30 minutes before sunrise on Nov. 2. Most whitetail junkies will agree: There is ...

A male or buck White-Tailed Deer, Odocoileus virginianus, near Goose Island State Park in Texas. (Photo by: Jon G. Fuller/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Deer hunting season in Texas ...

Dr. Jacob Dykes with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension has studied white-tailed deer for the past decade. “Some of my research includes evaluating the effects of heat on deer and cattle interactions and ...

When it comes to deer hunting these are the good old days in eastern Texas, and for that matter, most of the state. The regular season opens statewide Nov. 2, and while the situation is different from ...

AUSTIN, Texas — What started as a routine traffic stop by a Texas game warden in Montgomery County has turned into something much bigger, according to the Texas Wildlife Department. As we reported in ...

During a traffic stop outside Houston earlier this month, Texas game wardens caught two deer breeders trying to move captive whitetails illegally across the state. The men pleaded guilty, and they ...

State wildlife officials really want Texans to know that they'd better not try to mess with white-tailed deer. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) announced Thursday that two individuals—a ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas — A Texas deer breeder and his partner were caught trying to smuggle improperly identified white-tail deer, also known as "ghost deer," across the state, according to a ...