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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is accepting comments on a proposal that would allow the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly called drones, to locate feral hogs at night for hunters on the ground.“To use aircraft for that purpose currently requires our permit provisions to comply with the federal Airborne Hunting Act,” Stormy King, TPWD assistant commander of wildlife enforcement, told the Parks and Wildlife Commission. “These rules, much like a lot of things related to drones, were all written years ago before drones were a thing. So, our current regulations, when they were written, were talking about ...

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