The Conservation Fund and Hancock Timber Resource Group Announce Purchase Of More Than 3,600 Acres Of Forestland Along Village Creek BEAUMONT, Texas, March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the most diverse landscapes in America gained further protection today with The Conservation Fund's purchase of more than 3,600 acres in Hardin, Tyler and Polk counties from the Hancock Timber Resource Group.

FORT WORTH, Texas _ It's not as if they want to name every plant and animal on Earth. Just all the ones in the Big Thicket National Preserve. That's the mission of the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory under way at the nearly 100,000-acre nature preserve in Southeast Texas.

By R.A. Dyer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Aug. 5--It's not as if they want to name every plant and animal on Earth. Just all the ones in the Big Thicket National Preserve.

By Beth Gallaspy, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas Jun. 13--BIG THICKET NATIONAL PRESERVE -- Dots of color on rotting wood make Katie Winsett happy.

By Mark Babineck, Houston Chronicle May 14--DIBOLL -- Conservationists have a big problem with Temple-Inland's stewardship of 1.1 million or so acres of East Texas timberland: They don't want it to end.