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Texas A&M Forest Service Law Enforcement Investigators arrested Philip Eugene McKenzie, Jr, 60, of Magnolia, Texas on two counts of Timber Purchase as a Trustee with Intent to Defraud in Montgomery County on February 24, 2022.

Texas A&M Forest Service Forest Resource Development Chief Operating Officer Burl Carraway is the recipient of a Texas A&M University System Regents Fellow Service Award for 2020 – 2021.

Wildfire activity is forecast to increase Friday through Monday along and west of I-35 and into South Texas as dormant vegetation dries and becomes receptive to fire ignitions.

Wildfire activity is expected to increase through Wednesday as an active weather pattern aligns with dry vegetation across the landscape.

ROCKDALE, Texas – Minerva Volunteer Fire Department increased their fleet capacity by adding an excessmilitary truck and slip-on unit. The truck is provided through the Department of Defense Firefighter PropertyProgram and the slip-on unit through the Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program. “This new addition will increase our wildland firefighting power and our ability for […]

At today’s meeting of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) announced the selection of an independent panel to review the circumstances and cause of last week’s escape of a prescribed fire at Bastrop State Park.

MCGREGOR, Texas – Texas A&M Forest Service awarded McGregor Volunteer Fire Department an excessmilitary truck through the Department of Defense Firefighter Property Program. The truck will help increase the department’s firefighting capacity and will be a dual-purpose apparatus serving wildland firefighting and high-water rescues. Accompanying the truck, McGregor VFD also received a $20,000 grant through […]

Texas A&M Forest Service readies firefighting resources today in anticipation of an increase in wildfire activity caused by pre-frontal conditions approaching the state.

As social media feeds have been taken over by yellow and green squares, it seemed like a good idea to make a Wordle-style forest map. This effort was inspired by Alasdair Rae’s worldle maps. The base of this map is a 30-meter resolution map of forest in Texas, which you can read more about here. To turn […]

Texas A&M Forest Service’s Richard Gray received the 2021 Vice Chancellor’s Award in Excellence for Public Service in Forestry today.