Youth-Only Hunting Seasons Create Opportunities
Starting with Saturday’s opening of squirrel season, young hunters can get a jump start on the 2015-16 Texas fall hunting seasons, with more special youth-only weekend hunting seasons on the horizon. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department biologists say range conditions and wildlife populations are ripe for success in the field.
This weekend’s youth squirrel hunting season in East Texas in advance of the Oct. 1 general season opener provides mentoring opportunities for the next generation of hunters for this Pineywoods tradition.
More information about this program is available online at http://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/hunt/public/mentored_hunting_workshops/ .
TPWD also offers adults accompanied by young hunters the chance to take the first shots on one of the state’s premier wildlife management areas. The Chaparral WMA holds an adult/youth dove and quail hunt on Oct. 17-18. For more information call 830-676-3413.