Texas Forest Service

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Federal money available for longleaf pine forest owners

July 21, 2010 — TEMPLE, Texas — Longleaf pine forests once covered much of East Texas — and they could again thanks to a federal program offering money to landowners who grow the trees on their property.The Natural Resource Conservation Service will pay East Texas landowners who either implement conservation practices designed to maintain and improve existing longleaf pine ecosystems or plant new stands.About $352,000 has been allotted for landowners through the Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program, which can pay for up to 75 percent of the cost for practic...
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Texas Forest Service Planning and Forest Policy Coordinator Jan Davis has been tapped by the U.S. Forest Service to serve as assistant director of the USDA Forest Service Urban and Community Forestry Program. more

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