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Tree City USA is an Arbor Day Foundation program that provides communities with a four-step framework to maintain and grow their tree cover. It also gives them an avenue to celebrate their work, showing residents, visitors, and the entire country that they’re committed to the mission of environmental change. One of the standards communities must meet […]

The Texas A&M Forest Service Leadership Institute hosted the kick-off session for its second class October 26 – 28 in College Station, Texas

Beasley Fire Department added a 2022 tanker to their fleet thanks to a $220,000 grant through the Texas A&M Forest Service Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program. The primary purpose of a tanker is to keep a supply of water available to firefighters, aiding in fire suppression. “This 3,000-gallon tanker will bring greater capabilities by […]

Trees and green space make campuses more livable, healthy, and beautiful, benefiting students and the environment as a whole. The Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree Campus Higher Education program provides a simple framework for colleges and universities to grow their community forests, achieve national recognition, and create a campus their students and staff are proud of. In Texas, […]

Texas A&M Forest Service is now accepting grant applications from landowners in the high plains region of Texas who construct vegetative fuel breaks on their property.

CHICO, Texas – Wise County Sand Flat Fire Department now has immediate access to 800 gallons of waterthanks to a $200,000 cost share grant through the Texas A&M Forest Service Rural Volunteer FireDepartment Assistance Program. “The primary mission of this new truck will be to extinguish brush fires as well as shuttle water to other […]

The 23rd annual Capital Area Interagency Wildfire and Incident Management Academy (CAIWA) begins at the Camp Swift National Guard Facility in Bastrop, Texas this week. The academy will take place October 8-20, 2021.

REAGAN, Texas –- Reagan Volunteer Fire Department received a $70,000 grant from the Texas A&MForest Service Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program. Thanks to this cost-share grant, the department now has a rugged firefighting machine. “We appreciate having the opportunity to add a 2021 apparatus to our fleet,” said Reagan VFD Fire ChiefRonnie Brown. “About […]

BLOOMBURG, Texas –- As a first line of defense against wildland fires, volunteer fire departments play avital role in the protection of the rural areas of Texas. Cass County ESD #3 enhanced their fleet with aStewart Stevenson military truck thanks to the Department of Defense Firefighter Property Program that waslaunched in Texas in 2005 by […]

MARLIN, Texas – Marlin Volunteer Fire Department was first to be called out to what became the 96-acreRice Road fire. Their new excess military truck addition was instrumental in helping the department fight a sixhour long battle along with other area fire departments and Texas A&M Forest Service. “The Stewart Stevenson did very well in […]