environment

Partners celebrate success: Reef project projects marine life, improves local angling opportunities

Fishing is a popular pastime across the area, and Southeast Texas is known for ample angling opportunities. But, what happens when the fish have no place to live and those opportunities “dry up,” so to speak? A team of concerned conservationists and local leaders have an answer to that question.

Big thicket volunteer tree planting

Big Thicket National Preserve is expanding the volunteer longleaf pine tree planting efforts to multiple events this coming winter. Volunteers can join park staff and partners to plant over 20,000 longleaf pine trees in January and February.