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Texas Parks & Wildlife: Rainbow trout stocking, Blanco State Park. For regulations, angling tips and locations statewide, click on tpwd.texas.gov and search for “trout stocking.”

Saturday

Pedernales Falls State Park: Dutch Oven cooking demonstration, 2-4 p.m. Meet at the park host site at camping loop. Call Wendi Laws, 830-868-7304, Ext. 235, or email wendi.laws@tpwd.texas.gov. Free. Entrance fees apply.

Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge: 13th annual SparrowFest with workshop/field trip on identification of more than 20 native species at the refuge near Marble Falls. Click on friendsofbalcones.org.

South Texas Pistoleros: Monthly match of the cowboy action shooting club, 9 a.m., Cowboy Action Shooting Range at A Place To Shoot, 13250 Pleasanton Road. Nonmembers welcome. Call 210-661-3550 or 210-628-1888 or visit stxpistolaros.com.

Sunday

Guadalupe River State Park: GRSP Big Year Bird Walk, to look for area birds to add to park’s list, 8:30 a.m., headquarters. Some binoculars available for loan. Free. Entrance fee applies. Call 830-438-7653 or email craig.hensley@tpwd.texas.gov.

Tuesday

Alamo Arms Collectors Association: Monthly meeting, 6:30 p.m., San Pedro Church of Christ, 311 Jackson-Keller Road. Nonmembers welcome. Call George Stenzel, 210-523-5540.

Wednesday-Feb. 11

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.

Wednesday

Alamo Retriever Club: Monthly meeting, 6:30 p.m. with presentation at 7:15, Sarita’s Mexican Restaurant, 2235 Lockhill Selma Road. Non-members with desire to learn about training hunting receivers welcome. Click on alamoretriever.com.

Thursday-Feb. 12

San Antonio Boat & Travel Trailer Show: More than 300 watercraft and 100 recreational vehicles and fishing gear vendors, Alamodome. Kid fishing tank. Call 512-481-1777 or click on sanantonioboatshow.com.

Thursday

Texas Parks & Wildlife: Rainbow trout stocking, Live Oak City Pond. Last stocking for the season. For regulations, angling tips and locations statewide, click on tpwd.texas.gov and search for “trout stocking.”

Feb. 10-12

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.

Feb. 11

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?, a 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.

Feb. 14

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.

Feb. 15

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.

Feb. 16

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.

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