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We've started our membership drive for 2025. For our annual members, if you use PayPal; then you can renew for 2025 on our website: https://www.rlatx.org/membership-renewal.html, pay in-person at our annual meeting in January, or send a check or money order to RLAT at PO Box 1164, Bandera, TX 78003. If you joined as a member in the last few months, then we signed you up as a 2025 member and you do not need to renew.

​REWARD
 
$1,000 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction for a deer mass-killing on October 5, 2024 in the vicinity of Rikki Rd and FM 3240, where seven deer were discovered dead at the entrances of various properties.
 
The Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife is the investigating entity, and they have also posted a $1,000 REWARD. Call 800-792-GAME (4263).
 
RLAT Contact: 830-328-2653
P. O. Box 1164, Bandera, Texas 78003

*We contacted the game warden for the Bandera area, Brent Deen. He does not have any leads at this time and would appreciate our assistance. We are working on posting an additional reward

​The RLAT board has approved posting a reward for some damage to some of our newer members' property. This occurred October of last year and there is a reward currently posted on Operation Game Thief by Texas Parks and Wildlife.

​RLAT held our annual meeting last month, February 15. Our website, https://www.rlatx.org/, has an article about the meeting on the home page. We had two interesting speakers at the meeting: the first speaker was Texas Commissioner of Agriculture, Sid Miller, and the second speaker was retired Houston firefighter, Eric Kellmann, who spoke about Emergency Services Districts. The Bandera Bulletin had an article about the meeting in their 2/26/25 edition.
 
The minutes of the members meeting are available to members on the members page, https://www.rlatx.org/members-page.html.
 
We had some guests at the meeting from the Texas Youth Hunting Program that spoke at the meeting. Part of our mission is the support of youth programs and this seems like a good program for us to support.

​As a landowner, if you would like more information about allowing them to hunt on your property, you can request information on their website: https://tyhp.org/landowner-request-for-info/. After the meeting, we spoke with one of our newer members Chris Mitchell who works with the program. He can be contacted at [email protected]

Here are some links to recent interesting articles:
https://texasfarmbureau.org/thune-legislation-would-repeal-estate-tax/
https://texasfarmbureau.org/texas-farm-bureau-launches-farmers-feeding-families-program/
https://texasfarmbureau.org/bills-introduced-to-keep-texas-ag-land-in-production/
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​We only have a few of the signs left that are given to new members so Bandera Signs is printing some new ones for us. The new signs will be on metal instead of the PVC that was used previously. We added the website address above the phone number.

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The Association is working to address the concerns of its members for the following :

• Property Owners Rights: Water, Land use restrictions, and legislative issues.
• Law Enforcement: Property protection, poaching, trespassing, livestock and game protection, and criminal prosecution of offenders.
• Cash Rewards: for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any person or persons committing crimes against its members' agricultural property, livestock, or wildlife.
• Support of youth programs: Agricultural and scholastic achievements, good citizenship, gun and hunting safety

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