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Labor Day is upon us and as we head outside to enjoy the last days summer, Texas A&M Forest Service urges Texans to celebrate carefully.

CRYSTAL CITY, Texas — Crystal City Volunteer Fire Department was awarded a $200,000 grant from theTexas A&M Forest Service to aid in purchasing a new tanker. The tanker was purchased through the Rural VFD Assistance Program, one of the many programs thatTFS offers to help improve and build upon the capacity of Texas VFDs. “Before […]

PARIS, Texas — For Lamar County Midway VFD, a new tanker is essential to better serve the southern part of thecounty. This is especially true since they previously relied on help from the northern half of the county for firerelief. A grant in the amount of $188,610 from Texas A&M Forest Service helped the department […]

CLEBURNE, Texas — Liberty Chapel Volunteer Fire Department recently updated one of its trucks with a new slip-on unitand small compressed air foam (CAF) system with the help of a $38,000 grant from Texas A&M Forest Service. The department previously purchased a new truck but wanted to put a larger tank and CAF unit on […]

ABILENE, Texas — A $155,000 grant from the Texas A&M Forest Service enabled Hamby VolunteerFire Department to upgrade from a 1984 model truck to a brand new tanker. “We applied for the grant so we could better the department and get newer and more modernequipment to serve our area,” Assistant Fire Chief Charles Tice said. […]

PORT ISABEL, Texas – For Port Isabel Volunteer Fire Department, a new tanker from the Texas A&MForest Service was necessary to help serve certain portions of the district that do not have access to firehydrants. The fire department struggled to serve some unincorporated areas of the city that had been experiencinga lot of grass and […]

The Nature Conservancy, Texas A&M Forest Service, and the U.S. Forest Service have collaborated to purchase a conservation easement on 4,785 acres of forestland in the Longleaf Ridge area of East Texas, permanently protecting some of the best longleaf pine habitat in the state.

The San Antonio Missions Baseball Club is committed to helping protect the community in which they live work and play. As team members took to the field over the past three baseball seasons, they also took wildfire prevention messages to the streets, and tonight were honored for their effort with a Bronze Smokey Bear Award.

The Camilla Twin Harbors Volunteer Fire Department is now better equippedto serve and protect the community after adding a new small brush truck to its response fleet withhelp from a grant administered by the Texas A&M Forest Service. “We were ecstatic when we got approval for our grant,” Fire Chief Cort Humes said. “We don’t […]

The long-term plan for a privately-owned estate can be as individualized as the property owner. That includes how the land is managed both now and into the future. Texas A&M Forest Service can help landowners explore options to develop a plan that is right for you.