BY Ella Tyler I drove through part of the University of Texas campus a few weeks ago and was reminded of my introduction to environmental activism. It was 1969, and many of my friends were protesting the expansion of Memorial Stadium and the impending destruction of trees along Waller Creek.
By Ella Tyler During the last Ice Age, eastern hardwood forests, Gulf coastal plains, and Midwestern prairies all came together in East Texas in an area known to early settlers as the Big Thicket.
Editorial by Ted Lee Eubanks, President Fermata Inc. The forests and forest industry of East Texas are undergoing radical change. All of the major timber companies (like the paper companies in Maine) are divesting themselves of forest lands they have owned and managed for decades.