Wildfire Recovery

Wildfires can destroy crops and be devastating to cattle ranchers if livestock is not evacuated in time. As your land begins to recover, ensure effective pasture and cattle management:  Pasture management  Stop grazing for a minimum of one grazing season to allow vegetation time to recover. This will:   Grazing too soon after the fire can […]

Wildlife  Food, water, and shelter are the three basic habitat requirements that all wildlife species need for survival. Below are ways you can address each of these requirements to benefit wildlife after a wildfire.  Supplementing food  Before feeding wildlife, it is important to understand what their needs are. Our actions, often good intentions, can have […]

Managing soils When wildfire moves across the land it often burns through the trees, plants, and leaf litter that covers the ground. Sometimes leaving nothing behind but the scorched soil underneath and increasing soil erosion.   Trees, vegetation, and leaf litter generally act as a buffer for the soil, slowing down and decreasing the force of […]

One of the first questions we get after a fire is “will my tree survive?” After a wildfire, you may see trees with brown leaves or damage to the canopies, charring on trunks, or bark cracking and separating from the trunk.   Many trees affected by wildfires will survive, but some may not and will need […]

There is no way to predict the severity with which wildfires will burn or the impact they will have.   Wildfires can cause minimal damage, eliminating vegetative competition and helping to improve the conditions of ecosystems. Though sometimes, wildfires can cause extensive damage to an area where rehabilitation and additional efforts to prevent and mitigate any […]

Tour through the story of Bastrop wildfire, restoration, and more with interactive maps and compelling multimedia content.

General BMP recommendations to minimize soil erosion following wildfires

Technical BMP recommendations to minimize soil erosion following wildfires

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.

Port Aransas Volunteer Fire Department received a fire truck today, donated by the Philomont Volunteer Fire Department from Virginia.

Over 315 students from 13 states are expected to attend the 20th annual Capital Area Interagency Wildfire and Incident Management Academy that will be held from Oct. 13-25 at the Camp Swift National Guard Facility located north of Bastrop.

Texas A&M Forest Service surveyed the 2,312 acres of the Hidden Pines Fire that burned outside the 2011 Bastrop County Complex fire boundary. This area encompasses part of Buescher State Park, private and public property. The state agency estimates that 143,000 out of 233,000 trees were killed in this area, including those likely to die as a result of the wildfire. This translates into a potential $1.8 million loss in ecosystem services — a value placed on the annual social, economic and environmental benefits the trees provided the area before the fire.

Technical designs, schematics, and installation for BMPs to minimize soil erosion following wildfires

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.

Port Aransas Volunteer Fire Department received a fire truck today, donated by the Philomont Volunteer Fire Department from Virginia.

Over 315 students from 13 states are expected to attend the 20th annual Capital Area Interagency Wildfire and Incident Management Academy that will be held from Oct. 13-25 at the Camp Swift National Guard Facility located north of Bastrop.

Texas A&M Forest Service surveyed the 2,312 acres of the Hidden Pines Fire that burned outside the 2011 Bastrop County Complex fire boundary. This area encompasses part of Buescher State Park, private and public property. The state agency estimates that 143,000 out of 233,000 trees were killed in this area, including those likely to die as a result of the wildfire. This translates into a potential $1.8 million loss in ecosystem services — a value placed on the annual social, economic and environmental benefits the trees provided the area before the fire.

Wildfires can destroy crops and be devastating to cattle ranchers if livestock is not evacuated in time. As your land begins to recover, ensure effective pasture and cattle management:  Pasture management  Stop grazing for a minimum of one grazing season to allow vegetation time to recover. This will:   Grazing too soon after the fire can […]

Wildlife  Food, water, and shelter are the three basic habitat requirements that all wildlife species need for survival. Below are ways you can address each of these requirements to benefit wildlife after a wildfire.  Supplementing food  Before feeding wildlife, it is important to understand what their needs are. Our actions, often good intentions, can have […]

Managing soils When wildfire moves across the land it often burns through the trees, plants, and leaf litter that covers the ground. Sometimes leaving nothing behind but the scorched soil underneath and increasing soil erosion.   Trees, vegetation, and leaf litter generally act as a buffer for the soil, slowing down and decreasing the force of […]

One of the first questions we get after a fire is “will my tree survive?” After a wildfire, you may see trees with brown leaves or damage to the canopies, charring on trunks, or bark cracking and separating from the trunk.   Many trees affected by wildfires will survive, but some may not and will need […]

There is no way to predict the severity with which wildfires will burn or the impact they will have.   Wildfires can cause minimal damage, eliminating vegetative competition and helping to improve the conditions of ecosystems. Though sometimes, wildfires can cause extensive damage to an area where rehabilitation and additional efforts to prevent and mitigate any […]

General BMP recommendations to minimize soil erosion following wildfires

Technical BMP recommendations to minimize soil erosion following wildfires

Technical designs, schematics, and installation for BMPs to minimize soil erosion following wildfires

Tour through the story of Bastrop wildfire, restoration, and more with interactive maps and compelling multimedia content.