Texas Most Texans are aware that the Texas Forest Service provides leadership and expertise in fighting forest and wildland fires. Forest landowners in Texas have received forest management assistance from the Texas Forest Service for 85 years. And, thousands of Texas landowners have received tree-planting assistance and trees from the Texas Forest Service Indian Mound Nursery near Alto, Texas, and the West Texas Nursery at Lubbock, Texas.
Entomology is that branch of science that deals with the study of insects.
An entomologist is a person who studies insects. Assistance with forest and urban tree pest problems is available from the Forest Pest Management Section of the Texas Forest Service. In 1962, the Texas Forest Service established the Forest Pest Control Section to deal with an increasing southern pine beetle problem in southeast Texas. The southern pine beetle is the most destructive forest insect pest in the southern United States. The Section s responsibilities have expanded beyond southern pine beetle to include survey, evaluation, and applied research on all major forest insects and diseases in the state.