Big Thicket hosting volunteer planting events

Big Thicket National Preserve is expanding the volunteer longleaf pine planting efforts to ecosystem-wide planting events this winter. Volunteers can join park staff and partners to plant longleaf pine and native grasses this winter.

The second of the three events will take place on Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service on Monday, Jan. 16, where volunteers will be planting grasses and longleaf pines. During the events, the area surrounding the planting areas will be closed for hunting. Notices will be posted a week in advance in those locations.