Texas Parks and Wildlife turns 50 this year

(March 8, 2013) -- “With all the bounty and beauty of our natural places, our parks, our wildlife, and with everything that’s at stake in our state today, we are excited about our 50th birthday,” said Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Executive Director Carter Smith, “but we don’t want it to be all about us, and we want to look to the future as we celebrate our past.”