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Texas Forest Service dedicates Ruth Bowling Nichols Arboretum in Jacksonville

JACKSONVILLE, Texas — Ruth Nichols doesn’t know exactly why or when she developed her love of plants and flowers. It’s just always kind of been there.The 95-year-old mother of a Texas senator has been a garden club member for more than six decades — 10 years in Pasadena and another 54 in Jacksonville. She even carries the title of Master Flower Show Judge Emeritus.“My mother was interested in plants, I grew up in a home that was interested in plants,” Nichols said. “I certainly liked trees. I’d hate to live in a part of the country without trees. East Texas has plen...
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Texas to host National Incident Management Conference

Led by the Texas Forest Service (TFS), the Second Annual All-Hazard Incident Management Team (AHIMT) Training and Education Conference will take place in Houston on November 4. The AHIMT conference provides training with a focus on best practices and lessons learned from response experiences. Read more...

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11/07 - Citizen Wildfire Ecology Spec...
11/11 - Growing, Identifying & Ap...
11/13 - Big Tree Tour

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