Aug 17, 2018 | News, News/PR
Last week, nearly 100 firefighters from across Texas loaded up and headed west to join thousands of colleagues in an extended battle against massive wildfires burning across Northern California, one of which has become the largest in that state’s history. While the...
Aug 26, 2015 | News, News/PR
Record amounts of spring rains may have ended the five-year Texas drought, but it has also provided bountiful fuel for more than 200 wildfires that cropped up around the state last week. Officials with the Texas A&M Forest Service and rangeland resource experts...
Feb 3, 2014 | News, News/PR
Approximately 10,000 trees will take root in Texas soil over the next two weekends in February, helping restore the wildfire-scarred landscape of Bastrop County. Aggie Replant – a Texas A&M student organization – will converge approximately 800-strong on...
Sep 28, 2012 | News, News/PR
A Texas A&M Forest Service survey of hundreds of forested plots scattered across the state shows 301 million trees were killed as a result of the devastating 2011 drought. The number was determined by a study of both on-the-ground tree health assessments collected...
Jul 20, 2012 | News, News/PR
Although drought is often the cause, trees can die for other reasons besides lack of soil moisture, said Dr. Eric Taylor, Texas AgriLife Extension Service forestry specialist, Overton. “Drought is the primary contributor to tree kill, but it may not be exactly the way...
