On the 167th anniversary of Texas’ statehood, elected officials and numerous students from around Texas packed the State Capitol rotunda to honor Caprock Canyons State Park and its ongoing efforts to preserve the Texas State Bison Herd. Southern Plains bison once numbered in the millions. A remnant of the last Texas herd had been saved […]

The Texas A&M Forest Service has selected trees at two state parks for addition to the Famous Trees of Texas Registry. A towering bald cypress at McKinney Falls State Park in Austin and a giant evergreen anacua tree growing next to Mission Espiritu Santo inside Goliad State Park & Historic Site have been added to […]

This is a chance to have your artwork seen by thousands.  Enter your artwork for the 2013 25th Anniversary HummerBird Celebration T-Shirt Design. Requirements for T-Shirt design are listed. For more information contact: Sandy at the Rockport-Fulton Chamber of Commerce: 729-6445 or email tourism@1rockport.org.  The deadline for getting your entry to the Chamber office is […]

At his March 1933 inauguration amid the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for the creation of a “forest army” to staff a massive conservation and public recreation program that included the development of state and local parks. By July, 274,000 men between the ages of 17 to 25 had joined the Civilian Conservation […]

In the late summer of 1963, the most popular show on television was “The Beverly Hillbillies,” a gallon of gas cost 29 cents, the University of Texas Longhorns were headed toward their first national football championship, “My Boyfriend’s Back” was the top hit on AM radio and Texas had a new state agency called the […]