Texas 4-H Sport Fishing Program aims to provide youth and adults with the skills to participate in safe fishing. The areas covered are angling skills, tackle crafting, and management ethics. In addition, self-confidence and critical thinking skills will be developed as part of the process. For more information about this, please contact your local Texas Cooperative Extension at (979) 845-4865.

Texas 4-H Shooting Sports is a program to educate youth on safe practices while participating in shooting sports. The list of shooting sports includes archery, shotgun, rifle, and many more. The participants are taught about local laws and proper behavior as well as discipline and self-confidence. It also teaches the responsibilities of leadership and how a good shooter must also be a leader. For more information, please contact your local Texas Cooperative Extension or the State 4-H Office at (979) 845-1214.

Texas Master Naturalist is a venture directed toward developing local corps of master volunteers to provide education, outreach, and service dedicated to the beneficial management of natural resources and natural areas within their communities. Many communities and organizations rely on such citizen volunteers for implementing youth education programs; for operating parks, nature centers, and natural areas; and for providing leadership in local natural resource conservation efforts.

Texas Wildlife Habitat Evaluation Program is a competitive project where youth, parents, and volunteer leaders learn how to manage habitat to meet wildlife needs. The participants engage in five different activities: food identification, habitat evaluation using aerial photos, on-site habitat management recommendations, and writing rural and urban wildlife plans. For more information, please contact your local county extension agent.

The C.L.E.A.R Project (County Level Easily Accessible Resource) was initialized to provide Texas landowners with a unique look at their natural resources. The two counties of Washington and Gillespie were chosen to test this project. The CLEAR system allows you to view different types of data such as soils, vegetation, streams, roads, and more as part of an interactive mapping system. You will also be able to view photo imagery at one meter resolution for both Washington and Gillespie counties. The project is a partnership between the Texas Agricultural Extension Service and the citizens and partners in Washington and Gillespie County.

Texas Land Trends - The Texas Land Trends website and CD are part of research conducted with American Farmland Trust that explores the changing landscape in Texas in light of land ownership characteristics, land value characteristics, and land owner demographics. The full project includes an interactive website that looks at multiple data and land characteristics across political and natural boundaries. An interactive mapping website allows for a spatial look at the patterns of these characteristics across the landscape. A CD version is available for more in depth looks at critical data.