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Millions Of Trees Lost In Texas Drought

AP | Posted 12.20.2011

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- A preliminary state estimate says as many as a half-billion trees died this year across Texas from the drought persisting ac...

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Texas Wildfire Season Hits One-Year Mark With No End In Sight

Posted 01.15.2012

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By ANGELA K. BROWN, The Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas -- The devastating Texas wildfire season reaches the one-year mark on Tuesday, and there...

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Texas Wildfires Spark Millions In Agriculture Losses

AP | Posted 11.28.2011

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Enough fencing to cross Texas from east to west nearly seven times, more than 1,500 head of livestock and swaths of pasture ...

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Power Utility Sued After Massive Texas Wildfire

AP | ANGELA K. BROWN | Posted 11.27.2011

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FORT WORTH, Texas — A utility knew about wildfire dangers amid Texas' severe drought but failed to remove dead trees and branches near power lin...

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State: Huge Texas Blaze Cause Likely Electrical

AP | Posted 11.20.2011

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Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas -- Sparks from electric power lines likely started the blaze that became the most destructive wildfire in Texas hist...

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Texas Wildfire Protection Plan Lacks Funding

AP | DANNY ROBBINS and PAUL J. WEBER | Posted 11.14.2011

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SAN ANTONIO — Long before this month's historic wildfires in Texas, the state's forest service came up with a $20.4 million plan to stop the fla...

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Firefighters Experience Delay With Texas Wildfires

AP | Posted 11.08.2011

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BASTROP, Texas -- Firefighters can't use one of their biggest weapons against a devastating wildfire in Central Texas because they haven't assembled t...

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