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Cure your shaky camping skills with a weekend workshop. More than 800 invasive species threaten our water resources. Learn more about the life and habits of gigantic alligator gar, mostly unchanged since the dinosaurs. Carter Smith lauds Mother Neff’s grand re-opening. Read about a 3-day trip to explore West Texas rock art. Learn how a plastic worm turned the tide for bass anglers. Sargassum (seaweed) is the offshore home to over 100 species of marine life. On land, watch out for the sneaky, stinging noseburn. Amid agriculture and industry, Resaca de la Palma State Park’s landscape doesn’t change. Ranchers love the threatened Texas indigo snake. Editing your photos on a smartphone can yield amazing results. Learn to cast before you hit the water.
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FAMILY CAMPING MADE EASY
Want to camp but shaky on skills? There’s a cure for that.
 By Stephanie M. Salinas
For some people, camping seems as easy as tying your shoes. For those of us who didn’t grow up pounding tent stakes and cooking over a campfire … well, it can be more than a little intimidating. My choices were to avoid camping for the rest of my life or to dive right in and give it a try. Read more.
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Water-hogging invasives beware: TPWD is out to get you.
 By Larry D. Hodge
Carl Boatman points the nose of the airboat directly at the green wall confronting us on Toledo Bend Reservoir and revs the motor, raising a wall of mist behind us. I brace for impact as we slam into the wall — but we sail smoothly on. We’re riding on a 3-foot-thick floating carpet of water hyacinth and giant salvinia.
More than 9,000 acres of the north end of Texas’ largest reservoir lie smothered beneath a blanket of plants descended from those that were brought to Texas from South America in the not-too-distant past. Read more.
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Alligator gar is the misunderstood "big daddy" of freshwater fish.
 By Dyanne Fry Cortez
“We live in Germany. We want to come to Texas and fisch for gar!”
Ten years ago, that message landed in my email box at Texas Parks and Wildlife Department headquarters. It was my first hint that our biggest freshwater fish was starting to get some respect. Read more.
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