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Housing developments are steadily closing in on the borders of W. Goodrich Jones State Forest. The forest is located in the busy commercial corridor along Interstate 45 north of Houston and offers a slice of solitude to the many residents of the surrounding area. The solid forested area is striking from above, with residential streets […]

Two North Texas communities earn national recognition for cooperative wildfire mitigation efforts. The Lake Palo Pinto and 7R Ranch communities have earned the National Fire Protection Association’s Firewise USA™ distinction.

Texas A&M University students planted seedlings Saturday to help restore flood-damaged areas of the Blanco River. Aggie Replant, a student organization whose members strive to improve the community through tree planting events and environmental service.

Cynthia Foster, head of the Wildfire Planning and Preparedness Department at Texas A&M Forest Service received the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents Fellow Service Award on Wednesday, Feb. 7 at a presentation ceremony in College Station.

Ever wonder what Texas looks like from above — way above? These images were taken from a satellite passing over Earth. Since Texas is so big, it’s actually several images that have been mashed together, or in technical terms, mosaicked to form a composite image. The first image is what Texas would typically look like […]

Critical fire weather conditions will be present over the Texas Panhandle and West Texas regions Wednesday with a small chance of a weather-caused phenomena called a Southern Plains Wildfire Outbreak.

Educational outreach team members who helped incorporate fire resistance ratings into the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Earth-Kind® Plant Selector were awarded a Superior Service Award for a Team today, Jan. 9, at a ceremony in Bryan, Texas.

Texas A&M AgriLife has awarded Andrew Crocker, Staff Forester for Texas A&M Forest Service, the 2017 Vice Chancellor’s Award in Excellence for Pubic Service in Forestry.

There are 63.2 million acres of forestland across the state of Texas. That’s slightly more area than the entire state of Wyoming. We know how much forestland is in Texas because of Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA), a partnership between the Texas A&M Forest Service and the U.S. Forest Service to collect data throughout the […]

December 15, 2016 — BANGS, Texas — Bangs Volunteer Fire Department recently received a $100,000grant through Texas A&M Forest Service’s Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program. The new vehicle is a 2016 Ford F-550 with a 500-gallon water tank, 30-gallon foam tank, bumper-mountednozzles, and pump, which can be operated from inside the cab, behind the […]