As of Wednesday afternoon, the Smokehouse Creek Fire has burned over 1 million acres of the Texas Panhandle, making it the largest wildfire in state history. It’s one of four wildfires currently ...

Sadly, most Texas hunters were not even born the last time the state enjoyed a real boom cycle for bobwhite quail. There have been some consecutive up years, the most recent being 2014-17, but even ...

I have to admit, I am not bullish on the long-term future for bobwhite quail in Texas, and to be honest the rest of North America. Estimates are that quail numbers across the U.S. have dipped 75 ...

With ample rainfall, healthy cover, and an abundance of quail in the summer of 2010, hunters in the Rolling Plains region of West Texas anticipated another bumper crop of their beloved birds the ...

Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD) surveys shows quail populations are on the rise, just in time for the beginning of hunting season. The quail hunting season began Oct. 28. The data indicates ...

Quail season opened Saturday in Texas. For the shrinking number of Texans to whom quail and quail hunting are hugely important, this is bittersweet. Neither quail nor quail hunting are what they were ...

Quail hunting season kicks off Saturday and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is predicting an uncertain hunt this year due to drought conditions. Texas is home to four quail species: the ...

Quail hunters in Texas can take a little solace, perhaps even a bit of optimism, afield this season. The state’s bobwhite quail populations seem to be recovering in what could be a “building year” for ...

Every newly hatched quail chick or turkey poult is something of a miracle. And simply making it into the world is just the first hurdle these ground-nesting birds face when they peck their way onto ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — South Texas is a hot spot for wildlife, and one of the biggest species in the Coastal Bend is birds. This season, the quail population in Texas is the highest its been in five ...

In the summer of 2010, the Rolling Plains of West Texas expected a bumper crop of quail. By October, they nearly had vanished. Now, as part of the largest quail disease study ever undertaken in the ...