Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) has suffered budget cuts by the Texas Legislature.
TPWD has cut staff, reduced expenses, transferred management of some areas, and dealt with the aftermath of hurricanes ... all on an ever diminishing amount of resources.
I would like to add that you may also help by:
- volunteering your time to take up the slack left by staff cuts
- donating goods to be sold in park stores and buying same
- writing your representatives about parklands in their district that need attention