Texas Hunting Traditions to get as many areas within that distance
tributed from South Texas (Brooks Coun-
of urban centers with the idea a hunter
ty) to the Panhandle (Hansford County)
can leave it noon, hunt until dark and then
and from the Beaumont region (Orange
return home at a decent hour.�
County) to far West Texas (Hudspeth
Dove (and small game) leases are dis-
County).
Some 84 percent of the dove units and 80 percent of the acreage are located in the Dallas/Ft Worth (Reg. 4), Austin/Waco (Reg. 6), Houston/Beaumont (Reg. 7), and San Antonio/Corpus Christi (Reg. 8) public hunting regions. This aspect of the public hunting program began in 1994 as a pilot program to benefit both hunters and agricultural producers in Texas. Their short team public hunting lease program, sought to lease private lands during the dove season for use by purchasers of the APH permit and these areas are benefitting hunters of 110 |
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