KOUNTZE, Texas — The Big Thicket could lose thousands of new trees slated to be planted this spring due to the government shutdown. Almost 15,000 trees being stored for planting as well as thousands ...

KOUNTZE, Texas — The last 8 years, on the weekend around the celebration of Martin Luther King day you would normal see Erika Pelletier at the Big Thicket National Park in Kountze serving her ...

Southeast Texas towns like Kountze, northeast of Houston, are often two places at once. Staunchly Texan, but culturally part of the Deep South. Conservative and conservationist. A piney woods lumber ...

The updated plan for a U.S. 69 road construction project is drawing concern for Southeast Texas trees. The Texas Department of Transportation presented the “Gateway to the Big Thicket” project's ...

KOUNTZE, Texas — Three Big Thicket trails are currently closed due to significant damage from fallen trees and washouts following Hurricane Beryl. The Big Thicket National Preserve announced that ...

The Big Thicket National Preserve is one of the wildest and least accessible parts of Texas. Sprawling across more than 113,000 acres of East Texas, the mossy and mysterious expanse encompasses swamps ...

For more than 100 years, it was referred to by natives as "the Witness Tree," or "the County Line Magnolia." Now it was dead. Poisoned. It was March 1966 and the Department of Interior was considering ...

Dedicated Texans will put on their work gloves this winter to help a tree we’ve been loving to death The longleaf pine is a tall, stately tree that once covered some 90 million acres of land from ...

Work has begun to remove trees from the Havant Thicket woodlands as part of a project to create a reservoir. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, you can get unlimited access to the ...