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plumes of smoke behind houses
December 22, 2025

Warm, dry holiday weather elevates wildfire risk across Texas

Texas A&M Forest Service encourages extra caution over holiday season

A row of seven people in suits standing in a row in front of a 12-foot-high screen bearing the name of the 2025 World Water Congress and logos of its organizers
December 16, 2025

Texas A&M experts spotlight water solutions at World Water Congress

Texas A&M AgriLife and Texas A&M Engineering researchers join international discussions and presentations in Morocco.

people stand around a tree being planted
December 11, 2025

Texas A&M Forest Service offers $1.2 million in community forestry grants

Webinar set Dec. 12 to explain application process

Thompson Creek
December 5, 2025

Thompsons Creek watershed protection meeting set for Dec. 16 in Bryan

Community members, landowners invited to help develop protection plan

a river with tree-lined banks
December 1, 2025

Texas Resilient Landscapes Initiative offers $3.2 million in reforestation funding

Cost-share initiative helps landowners replant native trees after natural disasters

A person in a plaid shirt looks through binoculars in a wooded area.
December 1, 2025

Listening to nature, one bird call at a time

Texas A&M’s Carmen Reisdorf ’27 built a citizen science project linking AI, ecology and global volunteers

A smiling woman in a maroon shirt
November 24, 2025

Soil, science, sustainability: Katie Lewis shapes farming’s future

AgriLife Research scientist turns passion into science to sustain the land, and people who depend on it

A rural Hill Country landscape.
November 14, 2025

Land management workshop slated for Nov. 21 in Fredericksburg

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service event to focus on wildlife valuation, grazing, fire preparedness, more

A monarch butterfly.
November 12, 2025

Research maps monarch migration along Texas highways

Texas A&M scientists study how roads, wind and conservation affect one of nature’s most extraordinary journeys

The Lampasas River
November 10, 2025

Whole watershed testing program set for Nov. 19-20 in Lampasas

Residents can test well water and soil, learn best practices and earn continuing education units

wildfire flames shoot up from dried grass
November 6, 2025

Elevated wildfire risk expected across Texas this week

Increasing dry conditions spark concerns across Texas Plains

changing leaf colors are bright against a bold blue sky
November 5, 2025

The magical chemistry behind nature’s fall foliage colors

Texas A&M Forest Service expert explains what causes the pigment changes

A man wearing a maroon polo stands with his arms crossed in front of wooden planks and a forestry background.
November 5, 2025

Texas A&M forestry track builds field-ready experts

Daniel Hook ’27 gains hands-on skills for careers in forestry industry

Yellow bird standing on tree limb
November 5, 2025

Backyard bird habitats focus of Nov. 19-20 virtual seminar 

AgriLife Extension event will provide design strategies for attracting birds to home landscapes 

an aerial view of a forest with a large section of it turned red and orange after southern pine beetle infestations caused the green trees to begin to die off
November 3, 2025

Cost-share program available to help prevent southern pine beetle threats

Texas A&M Forest Service offers landowners technical and financial assistance

Three people walk down a dirt road flanked by flames from a prescribed fire.
October 28, 2025

Nov. 13 webinar to focus on waterbird conservation along Texas coast

Free AgriLife Extension event to highlight role of prescribed fire in sustaining marsh habitats

Two white-tailed deer bucks.
October 27, 2025

Hunters, landowners critical to monitoring New World screwworm

AgriLife Extension’s Coastal Bend symposium provided updates, resources for white-tailed deer management

a black spray bar for chemical applicators
October 24, 2025

South Plains Applicator Conference set for Dec. 2-3 in Plainview

Continuing education units and pesticide applicator license training are offered

A national park entry sign with a mountain in the background.
October 23, 2025

Texas A&M AgriLife develops guide to manage feral hogs in national parks

Research gives U.S. National Park Service adaptable framework to protect land and heritage sites

people are gathered around an exhibitor both with a green awning.
October 20, 2025

Centennial celebration of Texas’ first state forest hosted in Newton County

E.O. Siecke Forest acquired by Texas A&M Forest Service in 1924