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Monthly Archives: November 2016
Why I Burn – Wesley Evans, Regional Fire Coordinator, Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept.
This November we are featuring Wesley Evans, Regional Fire Coordinator for Texas Parks and Wildlife. Wesley is based out of Mason, Texas and I have never met a more dedicated and caring individual for the stewardship of prescribed fire. Wesley is super cool and he has my #1 favorite quality in prescribed burning practitioner – HE GET’S IT! Meet one of my favorite TPW people, Wesley Evans… How did you get introduced to fire? I more or less lucked into fire. After graduating college, I didn’t have much… Read More →
Meet a CEA – Trevor Dickschat
I met my good friend, Trevor Dickschat, when he served as the McCulloch County Extension Agent. Since then he has since relocated to Giddings, TX where he serves as the Lee County Ag and Natural Resources Extension Agent. Trevor loves working as an agent almost as much as he loves Aggie football and hunting, which is ALOT. What I appreciate most about Trevor is that he doesn’t care who gets the glory or credit, he just wants the job done and done right. He is an incredible agent and… Read More →
Jimmie Powell – Thee Man
Mr. James L. Powell accepted the Foy Proctor Memorial Cowman’s Award of Honor in Midland last week and some of the greatest stories of West Texas were shared. I first met Mr. Powell on a prescribed burn south of San Angelo and the man is just cool. He is humble, gracious, hard-working, not to mention, a legend. He even has his own chapter in the Texas Cattle Barons book. But in my book, he is right up there with John Wayne and other cowboy heroes. The following is… Read More →
Dr. Jake Landers’ Thoughts on Mesquite
Dr. Jake Landers morphed into a Range Father of mine overnight. The second I met him he was my hero. Dr. Jake Landers served as an Extension Range Specialist at the Texas A & M Research and Extension Center, San Angelo in 1979. He developed techniques and procedure for individual plant treatment of brush and prickly pear cactus for ranchers in 17 counties. He initiated prescribed burning as a procedure for managing rangeland to reduce undesirable species and stimulate grasses. He wrote short articles for newspapers and magazines… Read More →