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Laredo Birding Festival: Fifth annual event offers expert speakers, workshops and full-day trips with professional guides and members of the Monte Mucho Audubon Society along the Rio Grande, creek systems, nature trails and private ranches. Click on laredobirdingfestival.com.
Through Sunday
San Antonio Boat & Travel Trailer Show: More than 300 boats, kayaks and canoes and 100 recreational vehicles and fishing gear vendors, Alamodome. Seminars, kid fishing tank. Call 512-481-1777 or click on sanantonioboatshow.com.
Friday-Saturday
Texas Free Trappers: Rendezvous, a camp/competition recreating the mountain man rendezvous of 1825-40 with period clothing and shooting, knife and hawk-throwing matches, near Shiner. Call Joe Wolf for information and directions, 830-935-3121, or wolfbear@gvtc.com.
Saturday
Guadalupe River State Park: Bird in the Hand, a program of netting, banding and getting close-up looks at the birds of the park, 9 a.m.-noon. Meet at the amphitheater. Free. Entrance fee applies. Call 830-438-7653.
Guadalupe River State Park: Who Goes There? Walk to find signs of animals that live in the park, 2-3:30 p.m. Meet at the amphitheater. Free. Entrance fee applies. Call 830-438-7653 or email craig.hensley@tpwd.texas.gov.
Friends of Government Canyon SNA: Hike the Canyon, a four-to-seven-mile hike at the state natural area for ages 13 and older accompanied by adult, 12861 Galm Road, 8:30 a.m.-noon. Meet at Visitors Center. Entrance fee. RSVP not required. Call 210-688-9055, Ext. 2005, or click on friendsofgc.org.
San Antonio Audubon Society: Beginner’s Bird Walk, 8 a.m., Judson Nature Trails, 246 Viesca St., Alamo Heights. Nonmembers welcome. Free. Call Georgina Schwartz, 210-342-2073, or click on saaudubon.org.
Texican Rangers: Monthly match of the cowboy action shooting club, 8 a.m., on the Stieler Ranch on U.S. 87 between Fredericksburg and Comfort. Call 210-657-6538 or visit texicanrangers.org.
Tuesday
The Well Armed Woman: San Antonio chapter’s monthly meeting of the women-only group for education on firearms, 6-8 p.m., Nardis Gun Club, 4818 I-10 East. Email michelecrippen1@gmail.com or click on thewellarmedwoman.com.
Wednesday
San Antonio Metropolitan League of Bass Clubs: Monthly meeting, 7:30 p.m., VFW Hall, 202 W. Aviation Blvd., Universal City. Click on sa-metrobass.org.
Thursday
Saltwater-fisheries Enhancement Association: Monthly meeting, 7 p.m., The BBQ Station, 1610 N.E. Loop 410. Non-members welcome. Call 210-477-3037 or click on sea-sa.com.
Feb. 17-26
Texas Parks & Wildlife: Volunteers needed for 17th annual Texas Abandoned Crab Trap Removal Program. Eight drop-off locations along the coast. Call Zack Thomas, 512-389-8448, or email crabtrap@tpwd.texas.gov.
Feb. 17-19
Guadalupe River Trout Unlimited: Annual Troutfest Banquet and Expo, Lazy L&L Campground, River Road between second and third crossings, New Braunfels. Fly tying and educational classes, banquet, live and silent auctions. Keynote speaker Kirk Deeter, editor of Trout Magazine. Click on grtu.org/troutfest.
Feb. 17
Texas Parks & Wildlife: Rainbow trout stocking, Miller’s Pond. Last stocking for the season. For regulations, angling tips and locations statewide, click on tpwd.texas.gov and search for “trout stocking.”
Texas Parks & Wildlife: Rainbow trout stocking, Southside Lions Park. Last stocking for the season. For regulations and angling tips, click on tpwd.texas.gov and search for “trout stocking.”
Feb. 18
Blanco State Park: Great Backyard Bird Count, with master naturalist counting and talking about native birds, 9-11 a.m. Meet at the pavilion. Free. Entrance fee applies. Call (830) 833-4333.
Friends of Government Canyon SNA: Explore the Canyon, a hike guided by authorities on flora, fauna, geology and cultural history of the state natural area, 12861 Galm Road, 8:30 a.m.-noon. Meet at Visitors Center. Entrance fee. RSVP not required. Call 210-688-9055, Ext. 2005, or click on friendsofgc.org.
Tejas Caballeros: Monthly match of the cowboy action shooting club, 8 a.m., on a private range near Driftwood. 512-894-0897 or tejascaballeros.org.
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