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Many of us appreciate urban trees for the aesthetic appeal they bring to our communities, neighborhoods and properties. Urban forests make up a vital part of Texas’ natural resources, providing aesthetic, recreational, health and environmental benefits.

The theft of timber is a serious crime in Texas. Each year, Texas A&M Forest Service investigators receive theft complaints from landowners that total over one million dollars.

WICHITA FALLS, Texas  Bowman Community Volunteer Fire Department now has access to anextra 3,300 gallons of water to help fight wildland fires thanks to a grant through the Rural VolunteerFire Department Assistance Program. “Our protection area is becoming more of a wildland-urban interface, so this truck is very important inhelping to protect property not […]

SAN ANGELO, Texas  Pecan Creek Volunteer Fire Department converted an excess StewartStephenson, 2.5 ton military truck into a firefighting machine by adding a slip-on unit. The truck wasawarded through the Department of Defense Firefighter Property Program and the slip-on unit grantwas through the Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program administered by TexasA&M Forest Service. […]

Avinger Volunteer Fire Department added a new water tender to their fleet thanks to a cost share grant through the Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program administered by Texas A&M Forest Service. “This new tender is built to be a multipurpose apparatus even though it can carry 1,000 gallons of water,” said Fire Chief Kyle […]

Texas A&M Forest Service Law Enforcement Investigators made an arrest Thursday afternoon in a timber theft case in Harrison County. Agency investigators arrested Edward Tom Williams, 59, of Longview on a warrant for Theft of Property valued between $2,500 and $30,000. Williams was released on a $10,000 bond.

TERRELL, Texas — Ables Springs VFD added a state-of-the-art brush truck to help increase thedepartment’s capacity to save property and lives. “This will be one of our first out trucks for brush fires,” said Fire Chief Robert Irwin. “It has a lot ofimprovements that our other truck did not have, such as a Compressed Air […]

Overall BMP implementation has remained steady the last several years; this past round being just below the record levels set in Round 8 (94.1%). Most impressive is the considerable progress demonstrated by family forest owners since monitoring began in the early 1990s.

KIRVIN, Texas — Kirvin Community Volunteer Fire Department transformed a 1997 StewartStevenson into a brush truck capable of fighting wildland fires and navigating high water. It wasawarded through the Department of Defense Firefighter Property Program (DoD), along with a $20,000grant for a slip-on unit through the Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program, bothprograms administered through […]

High impact fire weather will develop Wednesday over the Western third of Texas due to a strong storm system moving into the Plains states. The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center has issued an alert putting western portions of the state in the “critical” and “elevated” categories for wildfire potential.