Texas A&M Ecology and Natural Resource Teaching Area

We updated the QR Codes! There are still spots available!

🔥 Interested in Fire Management? 🔥

Can’t fit the prescribed fire class into your schedule? We’ve got you covered!

ENRTA is hosting a FREE NWCG Firefighter Type II Training – an excellent resume booster!

✅ Skills Day: January 19th @ ENRTA

✅ Required Online Courses:
• S-130 Firefighter Training (NWCG)
• S-190 Intro to Wildland Fire Behavior (NWCG)

This is a fantastic opportunity for students passionate about fire ecology and management. Our TAMU TWS and TAMU Range Club have partnered with TPWD and TFS to make this happen!

📌 Sign up soon!

🔥 Interested in Fire Management? 🔥

Can’t fit the prescribed fire class into your schedule? We’ve got you covered!

ENRTA is hosting a FREE NWCG Firefighter Type II Training – an excellent resume booster!

✅ Skills Day: January 19th @ ENRTA

✅ Required Online Courses:
• S-130 Firefighter Training (NWCG)
• S-190 Intro to Wildland Fire Behavior (NWCG)

This is a fantastic opportunity for students passionate about fire ecology and management. Our TAMU TWS and TAMU Range Club have partnered with TPWD and TFS to make this happen!

📌 Sign up soon!

At the ENRTA Main Office, we received a munch needed 3.4 inches of rain this past weekend! Our native planting sure needed! It was getting a little crispy in Brazos County.

🌾 Perennial Grass Spotlight: Fall Witchgrass 🌾

This warm-season native thrives in dry, rocky, or sandy soils across West Texas. Growing 12–30 inches tall, Fall witchgrass provides fair grazing for livestock and has a unique twist—its seed heads break off at maturity and tumble away like little tumbleweeds.

👉 Keep an eye out for this grass on your rangelands—it’s another piece of the puzzle in managing diverse and resilient pastures!

It’s official – the Principles B4 Practices Online Course is now open to the public!

✅ FREE & self-paced
✅ Available in English & Spanish
✅ Learn soil health, rangeland assessment, and grazing management practices that build more resilient landscapes.

Whether you’re a landowner, rancher, or rangeland steward, this course equips you with practical tools to support healthier rangelands for generations to come.

👉 Register today: tx.ag/PB4P

Check out the silent auction for TSSRM in a couple weeks!

When you join our department, you join a family of passionate individuals dedicated to advancing resource stewardship, making meaningful contributions to science, growing as a professional and, of course, having a bit of fun along the way. We hope you were able to join us at the recent Fall 2025 Convocation, where we broke bread with friends, shared current research, and set our sights on what is to come. #WeAreRWFM

Build your resume! Open to undergraduates! Sign up and join us this Friday for our chainsaw training!

ENRTA Seeding Update! We have seedlings 🌱 After 1.25 inches of rain last weekend, our landscape seeding is in full germination mode.

Big thank you to the RWFM & TAMU Plant ID Students that came out this morning along with Dr Shehane. They helped with a native landscaping at our new building. We planted a mix of local potted natives and did a little bit of hand seeding!

Some pretty great work being conducted at ENRTA. It’s a pleasure to work with Dr Blum and the students!

White-tailed deer research benefits students, wildlife - AgriLife Today Research with Texas A&M Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management increases understanding of white-tailed deer ecology.