Canoeing at the Big Thicket.
Explore the Big Thicket with a guided canoe trip to experience the waterway of the preserve from a new angle. The free adventure targets the casual and novice paddler.
Cara Heisner
Silsbee High School’s Cara Heisner, the SHS student representative for Congressman Brian Babin’s Student Congressional Advisory Council, last month spent the day learning about the timber industry
Big Thicket planting
Big Thicket National Preserve is expanding the volunteer longleaf pine planting efforts to ecosystem-wide planting events this winter.
The thicket trees at beginning of project
Removing 13 miles of trees on Highway 69 (U.S.
Big Thicket National Preserve
Several groups, along with the Hardin County Commissioners Court, are offering opposition to the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) removing trees for the U.S.
Abandoned gas well
The National Park Service has received approximately $9.8 million in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to plug, remediate and reclaim abandoned oil and gas well sites in seven national
Neches river boat
The free and open-to-the-public Big Thicket Day will take place Saturday, Oct. 8, at Collier’s Ferry Park, 5390 Pine St. in Beaumont, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The Big Thicket National Preserve
The Big Thicket Association will host a “Super Bowl Sunday Hike” at the Big Thicket National Preserve’s Kirby Nature Trail Inner Loop on Sunday, Feb. 13, at 1:30 p.m.
Volunteers walk among sparsely populated forest growth in the Big Thicket National Preserve
Big Thicket National Preserve is expanding the volunteer longleaf pine tree planting efforts to multiple events this coming winter.
Big Thicket kayaking
A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 309,053 visitors to Big Thicket National Preserve in 2020 spent $20.3 million in communities near the Southeast Texas park.
