As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, these living landmarks offer a unique connection to the past.
Learn more about the Famous Trees of Texas: https://t.co/pq7cU2jTg0
🫂 La radio, la mejor compañía en un camión
🚛 Esta es la historia de Óscar, camionero español en Estados Unidos y oyente de @partidazocope
🗺️ "Yo en dos días y medio puedo llegar a cualquier punta de Estados Unidos"
📻 #PartidazoCOPE
Burls are rounded lumps that form on a tree's trunk or branches. They may look harmful, but they're actually a benign response to stress.
Unusual cell growth creates the unique patterns that make burl wood dense and strong.
Learn more: https://t.co/aIjvqit1o9
In early January, Regional Urban Foresters remeasured champion trees of the Texas Big Tree Registry.
Two champions were verified in Guadalupe Mountains National Park: Mohr oak (60") and alligator juniper (173").
Learn more: https://t.co/BZqxiqDL3V
Join us in congratulating Camille Wiseman, Woodland Ecologist III in Austin, who received the Bruce Miles Natural Resource Professional Award.
Read more about the 2025 director’s awards here: https://t.co/9aiKrNrZLr
The Goose Island Oak is one of the longest living oaks in Texas, estimated to be over 1,000 years old. Legend has it that the Karankawa tribe held councils and ceremonies under this tree. #ForestryFactFriday
The Smokehouse Creek Fire in the Texas Panhandle is the largest wildfire in Texas history, spanning the size of Rhode Island. The fire is an estimated 1,058,482 acres and 87% contained.
Conviene conocer y respetar el curso natural de los procesos: https://t.co/wuZTKIWEmQ. Así, #elMonteEnseña que hay que esperar resultados antes de opinar (https://t.co/fGfujAWuzG) y de bloquear, pues el monte cambia: https://t.co/UvU8HG3z8v. Selvicultura es acompañar el cambio.
Texas madrones are small trees with multiple trunks. They have four-inch clusters of pendants or bell-shaped, white flowers that appear above the leaves in the spring. #SpeciesSpotlight
A Boy Scout troop from Kirbyville, Tx poses for a picture with a Texas A&M Forest Service’s fire prevention signs in 1927. Signs were located throughout East Tx. The agency targeted fire prevention messaging to groups like the Boy Scouts. #ThrwobackThursday#RootsofTexasForestry
A recent survey conducted by Texas A&M Forest Service and The Nature Conservancy in Texas revealed that Houston's Gulfton Super Neighborhood could support more than 500 additional trees in public spaces. @nature_org#GreenerGulfton#HoustonTrees
More: https://t.co/ADKW8lPy0y
Through the 1940s, Texas A&M Forest Service constructed and maintained a telephone system to support forest fire reporting and communication between fire lookouts and field offices throughout East Texas. 🌲🔥 #ThrowbackThursday#RootsofTexasForestry
La innovación en equipos y métodos de trabajo se produce de modo continuo en el sector forestal. Un ejemplo notable está en el sector corchero, como se ve en esta ficha de #elMonteEnseña. Para responder a lo preguntado ver y descargar desde: https://t.co/flQgIDgRsq.
Un tema importante y actual (https://t.co/7noFHSIw3C) en las series de #elMonteEnseña. La idea básica es que no hay recetas universales tras incendio. A veces no hacer nada, otras actuar urgentemente para ayudar procesos, que en cada caso son diferentes: https://t.co/agtYufNyJT.
Today, Texas A&M Forest Service personnel, in coordination with @TXMilitary are conducting a prescribed fire on Camp Swift property in Bastrop County.
Units 23, 24 and 27 will be burned for a total of 561 acres.
🐢 Mbappé quiso abandonar la selección francesa tras la Eurocopa
😥 No se sintió respaldado en las críticas recibidas tras fallar el penalti decisivo contra Suiza
🗣️ Noël Le Graët: "Ya no quería jugar en la selección francesa"
https://t.co/1thOBirG11
Texas A&M Forest Service has increased the State Preparedness Level to Level 4 as the result of a significant increase in wildfire activity across the state, potential for large fires and the increased commitment of state and local resources to fires. 👉https://t.co/rMFdHtFMJu
Have you ever wondered what it’s like working for Texas A&M Forest Service? A week at the agency can cover anything from fighting wildfires to tornado response to managing urban trees and forests – literally.
Read about a week in the life of Jason Jones: https://t.co/44w0QiEwzC