COLLEGE STATION — A growing demand for southern timber and an estimated shortfall of 40 million pine seedlings across the South has prompted the Texas Forest Service to bring back pine seedlings to its East Texas nursery. “The south-wide demand for tree seedlings and the volatility of the seedling supply situation make it essential that…
LUFKIN – As if wildfires weren’t enough, the prolonged drought is fueling another pestilence that is killing pine trees in East Texas, says an official with the Texas Forest Service. The engraver beetle, which usually breeds harmlessly in fresh logging debris and weakened trees and doesn’t kill enough pine trees to be considered a major…
COLLEGE STATION–Many people have heard of the “roach motels” of commercials. Now, their fire ants may be able to check into the same type of accomodations. Bait stations to control fire ants on lands managed for wildlife are being developed as the result of research conducted at Texas A&M University. Dr. S. B. Vinson, an…
COLLEGE STATION — The Texas Water Resources Institute has published a database with water reuse information from more than 40 cities and water districts in Texas on its “Texas WaterNet” World Wide Web site. The URL for “Texas WaterNet” is , and the URL for the water reuse database is . This database was developed…
COLLEGE STATION — A Texas A&M University study shows more Southwest Texans than previously assumed support the once unthinkable notion of buying and selling of water rights in the Edwards Aquifer. Such a marketing system for water rights could help resolve difficult environmental and business issues in the 13-county area that depends on the aquifer…
COLLEGE STATION — Noted scientist and entomologist Dr. Edward F. Knipling will receive an honorary doctorate in commencement exercises at Texas A&M University on May 10, the first alumnus of Texas A&M to receive such a degree. Knipling is best known for the application of the sterile-insect release method developed by he and colleague Ray…
COLLEGE STATION — The second annual national Constructed Wetlands for Animal Waste Management workshop will be May 15-18 at the Ramada Inn- Downtown in Fort Worth. The event will open May 15 with a general session on topics ranging from policy to futuristic planning, Extension and producer activities reports, and discussion of swine, aquaculture and…
COLLEGE STATION — A new program has been created to more effectively coordinate environmental and natural resources efforts within the Texas A&M University Agricultural Program. The Environmental and Natural Resources Program was announced by Dr. Edward Hiler, vice chancellor and dean of agriculture and life sciences. Dr. Wayne Jordan, director of the Texas Water Resources…
COLLEGE STATION — “Yule Cut or we’ll cut,” is the motto at Darrell Lewis’ eight-year-old Christmas tree farm near Grand Saline, east of Dallas. “When I put this tree farm in, I was looking in the encyclopedia for a name,” Lewis recalls, laughing. “I saw yule log, and that was it. Yule choose, yule cut,…
Nov., 1995 Writer: Steve Byrns, (915) 653-4576 Contact: Dr. Dale Rollins, (915) 653-4576 SAN ANGELO — Predators and their management has always been controversial, and coyotes have been at the center of the controversy in the Southwest. Coordinators of an upcoming symposium hope to gather the most current knowledge on coyote biology, ecology and management. “Coyotes in…
