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Learn What’s New With The Texas Desert Bighorn Sheep Program!
May 2, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Froylan Hernandez, Desert Bighorn Sheep Program Leader for TPWD
Texas has eleven herds of free-ranging desert bighorn sheep, the result of restocking efforts begun in 1954 and continuing to the present time. Be sure to attend this important meeting to learn of the program’s successes!
Thursday, May 2, 2019
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Dinner Buffet Provided
Cash Bar (Credit cards accepted)
Members $45 per person
Non-Members $55 per person
REGISTER HERE
Froylan Hernandez is the Desert Bighorn Sheep Program Leader for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), Froylan leads one of the most successful wildlife conservation efforts in Texas. He holds a coveted position that many wildlife biologists might spend decades aspiring to. Stationed in Alpine, he is surrounded by some of the most ruggedly beautiful terrain in Texas. The way he tells it, how he ended up here wasn’t part of some grand plan.
He grew up on a ranch near Brackettville, where his father was a ranch foreman. Right out of high school, he joined the Marine Corps and served his country from 1986 to 1990. After his discharge, he followed in his father’s footsteps, working in the ranching business. Froylan would later graduate with a BS in Wildlife and Fisheries Science from Texas A&M and a Master of Science in Range and Wildlife Management from Sul Ross State University. He did his Masters’ thesis work on Montezuma quail at Elephant Mountain WMA, and after he graduated in May 2005, he took a research associate position at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute in Kingsville.
In 2005, Froylan was hired as assistant manager of Elephant Mountain WMA. In 2010 he was selected as Desert Bighorn Sheep Program Leader by his new boss, Mitch Lockwood.
