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Texas A&M Forest Service Assistant Director Wes Moorehead is the recipient of a Texas A&M University System Regents Fellow Service Award for 2019 – 2020.

Oak wilt is one of the most destructive tree diseases in the United States, and has been killing oak trees in Central Texas at epidemic proportions. Texas A&M Forest Service urges all Texans, particularly hunters, to take preventative measures and be cautious when collecting and purchasing firewood this time of year to reduce the spread of oak wilt.

Shive Volunteer Fire Department purchased a 2021 International tender thanks to a Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program cost share grant administered through Texas A&M Forest Service. “This new tender can carry 2,000 gallons of water,” said Shive VFD Fire Chief Michael Bosse. “It is replacing an older truck in our fleet and will help […]

Karen Stafford, Wildfire Prevention Program Coordinator with Texas A&M Forest Service is one of the members on a national team that has earned the Gold Smokey Bear Award.

Employees at Texas A&M Forest Service have been awarded two Bronze Smokey Bear Awards for their wildfire prevention outreach efforts across the nation over the course of Smokey Bear’s 75th Birthday in 2019.

In a year of firsts, Texas A&M Forest Service held the agency’s annual personnel meeting virtually. Spanning statewide, agency employees gathered together through space and time to recognize the past year’s agency accomplishments, employee achievements and to set the tone for the coming year.

Texans from across the state gathered today in the City of Harker Heights to celebrate Texas Arbor Day and grow new Texas traditions.

TROY, Texas — Troy Volunteer Fire Department received a $14,000 cost-share grant to help purchaseequipment (slip-on unit) to transform a truck into a firefighting apparatus. The grant was through the RuralVolunteer Fire Department Assistance Program administered by Texas A&M Forest Service. “The primary mission for this new slip-on unit will be wildland firefighting,” said Troy […]

[Jump straight to the maps] This month’s map depicts the prevalence of shortleaf pine in East Texas. I used Forest Inventory and Analysis data to compute the percent basal area of shortleaf pine, for trees 5” in diameter and above, on each plot at the last time it was measured (between 2015 and 2019). Management recommendations target […]

With hunting season underway, many hunters and campers across the state are headed to the wild outdoors. This greater movement of people into wildland areas increases the potential for human-caused wildfires to start.