Bob Zaiglin's  Field Journal
Bio:

            Bob Zaiglin serves as coordinator of the wildlife management program at Southwest Texas Junior College in Uvalde, Texas.  He is also the owner of Zaiglin’s Wildlife Resource Management, a consulting firm for the discriminating land steward.  As a private lands wildlife biologist over the last 30 years, he has implemented management programs on over one million acres in Texas.

Bob is one of the most recognized and respected whitetail deer biologists in Texas.  A certified wildlife biologist, he holds a B.S. in Wildlife Science and a M.S. in Range and Wildlife Management.  His management programs have been recognized as some of the most successful in the country.  Bob was awarded Texas Conservationist of the Year by the Texas Game Warden’s Association for his work with underprivileged youth hunting activities in 1985.  He also received the Col. Jimmy Doolittle Award from the Buckmasters American Deer Foundation in 2002.

            Bob is also an official scorer for the Boone and Crockett Club, Field Editor for the Texas Trophy Hunters Association, Whitetail Deer Editor for Texas Outdoors Journal and Southern Field Editor for Deer and Deer Hunting.  His publications on deer and deer management have been recognized as one of the reasons deer management is what it is in Texas today.  His photographic skills have also been widely recognized.

            As a hunter, Bob has taken two whitetails and one stone sheep in the Boone and Crockett all-time record book.  More importantly, Bob enjoys fond memories of hunting with his daughters Beth and Nan as they grew up on the ranches he managed.

            Bob presently resides in Uvalde with this wife of 26 years, Jan. 



High Country Hunting in South Africa Part 2 -10/06/2009
By noon on our fifth day in South Africa, we were on the third leg of our African adventure. This time we were heading to the Baviaans River Valley in the Eastern Cape and Andrew Pringle’s huge fami ...
High Country Hunting in South Africa -08/12/2009
My heart rate escalated upon each and every calorie-burning step up the steep rocky slope.  If I did not know better, I would have thought I was hunting sheep in Wyoming, but I was now over 10,0 ...
A Midsummer Nights Dream -08/12/2009
As the seasons click by; anyone who bowhunts can relate to the building anticipation of the quickly approaching hunting season.  The trail cameras are set, food plots are planted or getting plan ...
Cruising For Bruins -06/15/2009
         Ocala, Florida resident David Shashy and I have been friends and hunting companions for a long time.  We met in 1987 when he hunted with me ...
Specs Reds and Friends -06/10/2009
Just a short drive north of Corpus Christi is the small town of Berclair .   What makes this town, described as a wide spot in the road, so special is the fact that it is the home of whit ...
An Easter Weekend Family Turkey and Shed Antler Hunt -05/21/2009
The Nueces River rises up in Real County not 50 miles north of my home in Uvalde in the Edwards Plateau and empties some 315 miles south into the Gulf of Mexico.  As this river winds through the ...
Hunting For Rainbows in Texas -04/02/2009
As a large number of bass fishermen with elaborate boats in tow headed west to fish the bass-rich environment of Amistad Lake, only an hour’s ride west of my home town of Uvalde, my wife, Jan, and I w ...
Coyotes on the Rio Grande -02/28/2009
As Pecos belted out his best imitation of an injured rabbit, I laid on my side prepared for action. Not five minutes later, a coyote exploded from the thorny brush only steps from us. With the crossha ...
Friends and Blue Quail Hunting -02/02/2009
With the Texas deer season over, quail hunting represents an excellent excuse to spend time in the brush, and that’s just what I did on the third weekend in January. The hunt actually started on Frida ...
Brush Country Monarchs -12/24/2008
     The brush land paralleling both sides of the Rio Grande River, south of Del Rio, Texas, is considered a harsh environment with a plethora of brush species characterized by sha ...
Manipulating Optimal Antler Traits -12/12/2008
     As I walked over the sparsely-vegetated, windswept grain field towards my vehicle, my mind was in a quandary as to which part of the ranch I would search first. My objective was to ...
The October Rush -10/14/2008
     October represents the advent of another deer season with thousands of sportsmen gravitating to local grain fields and water holes to initiate the new hunting season in pursui ...
10th annual Texas Deer Association convention -08/29/2008
            I attended the 10 th annual Texas Deer Association convention in San Antonio on August 22-24.   As chairman of the ...
August Big Buck Activities -08/18/2008
     The 10th annual Texas Deer Association convention will take place on August 21 to August 23rd in San Antonio, Texas. One of the highlights of this convention is the antler con ...
Fishing the Eye of the Storm -07/30/2008
    As Hurricane Dolly developed strength in the Gulf of Mexico, my fishing companion, son-in-law Paul Ede, and I traveled south 200 miles to fish the bays around Padre Island.  Up ...
Texas Trophy Hunters Extravaganza -07/25/2008
One of the most highly anticipated summer events for Texas deer hunting advocates is the Texas Trophy Hunters Extravaganza, which took place in San Antonio during the second weekend in July.  My ...
Padre Fishing -07/11/2008
    Since the theme of my wildlife consulting business is to work with, not for, people, I have a rather large number of friends associated with my business.  One of my good fr ...
ANGADI Convention in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico -05/01/2008
On Friday afternoon, the 11th of April, accompanied by my wife Jan, I headed 133 miles south to Laredo, Texas where we met up with Mexican wildlife biologist Israel Tamez, who transported us across t ...
Spring Break -04/03/2008
Spring Break was spent traveling. It started on Saturday, March 15 when my wife Jan and I traveled south to the Broken Bow Ranch where we attended the wedding of my friend, ranch owner Bow Carpenter. ...
Texas Fires and Deer Surveys -02/27/2008
On February 8 and 9 I attended the Texas Deer Association’s third annual deer auction at the San Antonio Livestock Show and Rodeo. Obviously, things are changing when deer enter the auction ring and ...

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