City of Tyler Mayor Barbara Bass is seeking volunteers to help plant approximately 100 trees Saturday, March 8. You're invited meet on the patio of Fresh by Brookshire's at 9:30 a.m. if you're interested in volunteering your time and efforts to add trees to Tyler's growing urban forest.
It was a little more than a year ago that the most destructive wildfire in Texas history destroyed much of the vegetation in Bastrop County near Austin. It was a major setback for the renowned Lost Pines ecosystem. The fire covered 32,400-acres, destroyed 1,660 homes and killed 1.5 million trees.
Now, one East Texas town is coming to the rescue. Eleven-hundred pounds of tree seeds that were almost
It’s perfectly normal to mark the holidays with a decoration or two. But the Rieken family in Texas takes their celebration of the season to the extreme by cramming over 200 trees into their home. Clark Griswold of ‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation’ fame would be proud!
City of Tyler Mayor Barbara Bass has a vision of planting 5,000 trees within the next five years. Today her vision takes off as volunteers will plant over 300 trees at five different Tyler locations. All trees will be 15-gallon and will range from 8 to 16 feet tall...