by Web Editor | May 12, 2017 | News, News/PR
Texas A&M Forest Service is helping restore the threatened, iconic Ponderosa Pine forests of West Texas. After a myriad of environmental stresses destroyed nearly 75 percent of the majestic Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine population in the Davis Mountains it became...
by Web Editor | Feb 6, 2013 | News, News/PR
Hundreds of thousands of trees died in the historic drought of 2012, and many more will succumb in the next few years, scientists say. “This is just beginning,” says Janna Beckerman, a plant pathologist at Indiana’s Purdue University. “I...
by Web Editor | Feb 24, 2012 | News, News/PR
An estimated 5.6 million trees that once shaded homes, streets and parks in communities across Texas now are dead as a result of last year’s unrelenting drought. The finding comes from a study conducted by Texas Forest Service urban foresters, who spent the last month...
by Web Editor | Jan 6, 2012 | News, News/PR
The drought that ravaged Texas this summer killed millions of trees, only a small percentage of which will be salvageable for lumber or even wood chips, according to the state’s Forest Service. The Texas Forest Service estimates that, so far, the drought has killed...
