by Web Editor | Oct 19, 2015 | News, News/PR
Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared a state of disaster Thursday in Bastrop County outside Austin, where a wildfire destroyed 38 structures, most of them homes, and raced across nearly 4,400 acres, authorities said. The Hidden Pines Fire threatens more than 150 homes,...
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 | Jan 30, 2013 | News, News/PR
The Boy Scouts of America are recruiting volunteers to help reforest a popular campground that was devastated by wildfire over Labor Day weekend in 2011. Nearly half of the 5,000-acre Griffith League Scout Ranch was destroyed by the Bastrop County Complex, a monstrous...
