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 27, 2015 | News, News/PR
Hundreds of Aggies are once again heading to Bastrop State Park to help replenish trees lost during the devastating 2011 wildfire season—which destroyed an estimated 96 percent of the park. Approximately 550 Texas A&M University students, who are part of Aggie...
Jan 30, 2015 | News, News/PR
2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the Texas A&M Forest Service. Created in 1915 by the 34th Legislature, the agency is mandated to “assume direction of all forest interests and all matters pertaining to forestry within the jurisdiction of the state.” In 1993,...
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...