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Texas Game Wardens protect the natural resources of this vast state while fighting crime. A poacher brags online; wardens pull illegal nets from the river while looking for drug 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, including sea turtles and shore birds. A drunk teen on a jet ski lands herself in jail, and a robotic deer decoy helps catch night hunters.

A specialty team spends a week on a floating cabin to stop drug smuggling operations across the border. Wardens find an unconscious man in a car and attempt to revive him. The K-9 unit investigates a woman who may be killing owls for exotic headdresses.

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

The lakes are busy across Texas. 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 off with a bang, keeping agents across the state busy from sunrise to sundown. 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 wildlife 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. And fishermen must submit to inspections.

It's the start of deer season, and the Texas woods are filled with hunters trying to bag a prize buck. Game wardens are busy checking hunters across the state, 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.

Wardens check hunting camps at the height of deer season. On the Rio Grande River, they stop a Mexican fisherman from poaching oysters in USA waters. A game warden near Austin must rescue a trapped deer and get it to a rehabber before it’s too late.