Texas A&M Forest Service promotes prescribed fire benefits through grants for landowners

Texas A&M Forest Service awarded 81 recipients grants to conduct prescribed burns this year. For the 2022 fiscal year, the agency has approved $522,950 in grant funds to private landowners in Texas with a goal to treat 18,250 acres.

Texas is a local government state and 95% private property-owned. This means the management of our state’s lands, trees and forests—as well as the benefits they pro…