Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 61.005
This is the official text of Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 61.005, part of Texas’s Parks and Wildlife Code — governs state parks, hunting, and fishing.
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§ 61.005. DEFINITIONS.
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In this chapter:
(1) "Wildlife resources" means all wild animals, wild birds, and aquatic animal life.
(2) "Depletion" means the reduction of a species below its immediate recuperative potential by any cause.
(3) "Waste" means the failure to provide for the regulated harvest of surplus wildlife resources when that harvest would allow, promote, or optimize a healthy and self-sustaining population of a species.
(1) "Wildlife resources" means all wild animals, wild birds, and aquatic animal life.
(2) "Depletion" means the reduction of a species below its immediate recuperative potential by any cause.
(3) "Waste" means the failure to provide for the regulated harvest of surplus wildlife resources when that harvest would allow, promote, or optimize a healthy and self-sustaining population of a species.
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