COLLEGE STATION, Texas Texas A&M Forest Service awarded 126 recipients grants to conduct prescribed burns this year. For the 2024 fiscal year, the agency has approved more than $705,000 in grant funds to private landowners in Texas with a goal to treat 25,104 acres.
With Texas lands being 95%
COLLEGE STATION, Texas—Texas A&M Forest Service awarded 126 recipients grants to conduct prescribed burns this year. For the 2024 fiscal year, the agency has approved more than $705,000 in grant
Here is the actual notification they posted on Facebook:
The depot will be conducting prescribed burns this week, as weather allows. Burns are conducted annually for timber stand improvement, wildlife habitat management and to help protect the depot from destructive wildfires.
This is one of those forestry techniques that California should learn how to do. Might cut down on those wildfires they seem to have every year on the West Coast.
Here is some more information on Controlled Burns, nowadays referred to as Prescribed Fires from the Texas A&M University Forest Service.
Texas A&M Forest Service and its partners hold an annual Prescribed Burn Manager Training each spring (May/June) in the Lufkin, Texas area. The course is open to the public, but pre-registration is required. Limited seating is available and priority is given to students who meet the experience requirements for TDA certification. Students who pass the final exam will meet the education requirements for becoming