This picture was taken by a KTBS helicopter flying over Lake Conroe! 

(For those of you who are not local, Lake Conroe is about 50 miles north of Houston)

               That has to be a HUGE gator to have a whole deer in its mouth!

                             Are you ready to go skiing on Lake Conroe?

                     If you ski at the West end of the lake -- try not to fall.

      This alligator was found between Athens and Palestine, Texas near a house.
 Game wardens were forced to shoot the alligator - guess he wouldn't cooperate....

             Anita and Charlie Rogers could hear the bellowing in the night.

Their neighbors had been telling them that they had seen a mammoth alligator in the waterway that runs behind their house, but they dismissed the stories as exaggerations.

 "I didn' t believe it," Charles Rogers said.  Friday they realized the stories were, if anything, understated.

            Texas Parks and Wildlife game wardens had to shoot the beast.
Joe Goff, 6'5" tall, a game warden with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, walks past a 23-foot, 1-inch alligator that he shot and killed in their back yard.

 I think that the Texas Game and Wildlife wardens made a huge mistake when they shot this beast.

      With a little planning they easily could have transplanted it to the Rio Grande River. 

                  Now that should have cut down on the illegal migration just a tad!!