A coalition of more than 300 military and government officials, community leaders, conservationists, scientists, fishermen and others today released a plan to save the future of a million-acre expanse of salt marsh stretching from North Carolina to east-central Florida-nearly the size of Grand Canyon National Park. The South Atlantic Salt…

The stewards of Texas’ working lands have spoken. The Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute, a unit of Texas A&M AgriLife Research, recently published the results of the 2022 Texas Landowner Survey, providing natural resource and conservation agencies, as well as policymakers with critical insight into the demographics, needs, challenges and preferences of landowners who operate private working lands…

Researchers with the Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute, a unit of Texas A&M AgriLife Research, the Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and others recently published Rangeland Carbon Markets, a detailed report aimed at helping Texans understand the rapidly…

We are pleased to share that the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration (REPI) Program officially delivered the 2023 REPI Report to Congress. The congressional report provides information on the REPI Program and supportive DOD efforts to conserve land and address threats to military readiness from development…

What do natural resources professionals have in common with rocket scientists? More than you might think. Spacecraft-based cameras that orbit the globe have been providing images that guide natural resource management for decades. The NASA/USGS Landsat Program emerged from an initiative to “provide us with the opportunity to collect valuable…

Our population is projected to increase by nearly 73 percent in most of our lifetimes. Historically, the private landowners, who steward undeveloped, rural land covering more than 80 percent of the state, safeguarded Texas’ open space lands and many ecological returns from which we all benefit, including preserved working agricultural…

Researchers from the Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute (NRI), in collaboration with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and agricultural and natural resource professionals distributed the survey to better understand rural landowners and their land management objectives, challenges, concerns, and preferences. The newly released report provides an overview of the survey’s…

As Texas natural resources management and conservation professionals, we find ourselves asked by landowners, public land agency representatives, local communities, and private corporate entities about carbon markets, how they function, what the implications for rangelands are, how to understand current controversies around the carbon offsets and whether they should become…

Recent reports from popular articles and Canadian news outlets have made sensational claims about wild swine (Sus scrofa), suggesting that a new breed of “super pigs” is expanding their range to the United States. Accounts generally allege that this new breed, weighing ~600 lbs., now exists through natural selection within…