KOUNTZE, Texas (KTRE) Big Thicket National Preserve will start issuing this season’s free 2024/2025 hunting permits on Friday, August 30. Permits will be available first-come, first-served until the ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — The Big Thicket National Preserve will mark its 51st anniversary with Big Thicket Day on the Neches this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Collier's Ferry Park. The free community ...

Please join us for a special evening celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first national preserve in the National Park Service, Big Thicket National Preserve. NPCA is proud to host this community ...

Even as someone who’s lived in the Lone Star State my entire life and writes about it for a living, I’m always discovering ...

Big Thicket National Preserve Fire Ecologist Conor McInnerney’s job literally is to put fire back into the landscape. But using fire history, science and numbers, the forest’s prescribed burns mean ...

One of the original Big Thicket advocates and photographers, Larry Jene Fisher, was born on this day in history. Born on June 18, 1902 in Wichita Falls, Fisher played a key role in the first movement ...

I’d been bent at the hip like a cartoon detective, snooping around the trail’s edges, for over an hour. Covered in streaks of my own blood, courtesy of the recently satiated mosquitoes I swatted off ...