Members of the Texas A&M Forest Service watch as a plane drops fire retardant on a portion of the Smokehouse Creek Fire in Hemphill County. New legislative funding will support the purchase of aircraft for wildfire suppression. Photo Credit: Sam Craft/Texas A&M AgriLife
Leighton Gibson AgriLife Today Texas legislators allocated approximately $630 million in new funding, above current base funding, for Texas A&M Forest Service over the next…