Environment Texas Blog

This weekend Environment Texas participated in the fifteenth annual Texas Parks and Wildlife Expo.  The Expo provides a chance for visitors to learn more about the Texas parks system and how they can do their part to preserve this precious resource.  Businesses and organizations from across the state gathered this year to raise awareness about our state parks.

Environment Texas used the Expo as an opportunity to raise awareness of the budget cuts the Parks and Wildlife Department is facing this legislative session.  Volunteers and staffers educated visitors at the Environment Texas booth about what the cuts would mean to Texas’ natural wildlife habitats and what they could do about it.  As a result, over the weekend over 170 postcards were signed urging Texas state legislators to increase seriously needed funding for our state parks.