Lone Star Law

Texas Game Wardens protect the natural resources of the vast state while fighting crime. A poacher brags online, wardens pull illegal nets from the river while hunting smugglers and a giant alligator snapping turtle is rescued.

Undercover wardens interrupt a wild animal black market. An oil spill on Galveston beaches threatens wildlife. A drunk teen on a jet ski lands herself in jail, and a robotic deer decoy helps catch night hunters.

A specialty team of Texas Game Wardens spends a week on a floating cabin to stop drug smuggling operations across the border. The K-9 unit is called in to investigate a woman who may be killing owls to sell exotic headdresses.

Patrols are interrupted statewide by record storms and flooding. Near Austin, teams save multiple people from swift water and tornadoes, even aiding an injured doe and fawn. In east Texas, wardens chase an armed felon.

A Jet Ski crash sends one man to the hospital, a young partier is stranded on a stranger's boat and wardens must recover two drowning victims. On land, wardens search for a man shooting doves in a residential area.

Wardens search for an alligator that bit a man and his 13-year-old son. In west Texas, an abandoned car leads investigators to believe a teenage girl may be missing. And Delta County agents suspect a man of illegally hunting on his neighbor's property.

A deer found with an arrow still in it leads to a poacher. A team conducts a multicounty night operation to stop spotlighters. Wardens check duck hunters on teal opening weekend, respond to a boat collision and to a tip about someone keeping a pet fawn.

Dove season starts with a bang, keeping agents across the state busy. Wardens must relocate a 500-pound alligator that's loose in a suburban area. Someone has managed to hide a large marijuana crop in a wildlife preserve.

A biologist joins agents on a search for bighorn sheep in the west Texas mountains. A family reports gunfire raining down on their home. Wardens find a bow hunter, incriminated by his own camera. Fishermen submit to inspections.

Texas hunters flock to the woods on deer season's opening weekend. Wardens are busy across the state making sure everyone follows the rules, while also investigating a rash of deer stand thefts and rescuing a trio of baby hawks.

An undercover operation looking to stop deer hunter harassment uncovers a more serious crime. Wardens patrol the southern border for illegal fishing activity and the northern border for a trapper who may be selling live coyotes.

An officer near Austin must rescue a trapped deer and get it to a rehabber before it’s too late. A hunter shoots too close to a residential area, and wardens stop a Mexican fisherman from poaching oysters in USA waters.