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Texas Collecting Laws?

PurraLovesJazz

PurraLovesJazz

Poofy-Headed Snake-Addict
I've been looking around but I can't find what I'm looking for so far. I may be going to Texas for a visit, and my main goal is to do some field herping there. There are a couple lizards I'd really love to keep, does anyone know if that's violating any laws? I'd like to know before I go, just in case. I'd have to take them across state lines back to Indiana when I went home.

If it's illegal, I guess I'll just have to take pictures and let them go on their way.
 
Just make sure that you get the correct licensing and permits. Also keep an eye on species as well. I read somewhere that transporting horned lizards of any type through Texas is illegal, but that is all I have heard. I live close enough to the west part of the state that what they have on this side, I probably have here as well...lol
 
I'd been wondering this as well. Pretty much the only thing I found on the matter was, as long as you have a valid hunting License it's legal to collect 'em. This site may have been out of date, but it's what I found when looking around. <-- For Corns

Horned Lizards is Illegal, or it was when I caught one at my work a couple years ago. I didn't keep it for long, and set it free in a ranch near my house shortly after getting a few picture on my long lost cell phone xD. I can't wait to move back to this state, I don't like the summer but I miss it... lol
 
Outcast said:
Just make sure that you get the correct licensing and permits. Also keep an eye on species as well. I read somewhere that transporting horned lizards of any type through Texas is illegal, but that is all I have heard. I live close enough to the west part of the state that what they have on this side, I probably have here as well...lol
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Thickscaled said:
I'd been wondering this as well. Pretty much the only thing I found on the matter was, as long as you have a valid hunting License it's legal to collect 'em. This site may have been out of date, but it's what I found when looking around. <-- For Corns

Horned Lizards is Illegal, or it was when I caught one at my work a couple years ago. I didn't keep it for long, and set it free in a ranch near my house shortly after getting a few picture on my long lost cell phone xD. I can't wait to move back to this state, I don't like the summer but I miss it... lol
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I'm mostly hoping to find a banded gecko or a skink of any kind. xD Anything else I encounter will be photographed and left alone to go on its way.
 
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