{"id":75811,"date":"2025-12-04T13:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/75811\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T13:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:06:15","slug":"texas-am-forest-service-to-build-2-5m-smithville-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/75811\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M Forest Service to build $2.5M Smithville office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/tfsweb.tamu.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas A&amp;M Forest Service<\/a> will build a new office in Smithville.<\/p>\n<p>Collin Woodland, a task force coordinator at the existing Smithville office on Kellar Road, confirmed the project to Community Impact in an email.<\/p>\n<p>The details <\/p>\n<p>Construction of the 11,422-square-foot facility\u2014which has a scheduled start date of Jan. 1, 2026, and completion date of Jan. 28, 2028\u2014is estimated to cost $2.5 million, according to a filing with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tdlr.texas.gov\/TABS\/Search\/Project\/TABS2026006493\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It will be located at 306 Meduna Road in Smithville, which is nearly 13 miles from the existing office.<\/p>\n<p>What we know<\/p>\n<p>The Texas A&amp;M Forest Service, a state agency the Texas Legislature established in 1915, is tasked with the following:<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife prevention and responseForest management and conservationForest healthCommunity and urban forestryLand conservationEducation and outreachIncident managementNotable quote<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWords like \u2018first agency in the nation\u2019 and \u2018a national model\u2019 have been used repeatedly over the last century to describe [Texas A&amp;M Forest Service], and they still ring clear and true,\u201d Tom Boggus, a former Texas A&amp;M Forest Service director, said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas A&amp;M Forest Service will build a new office in Smithville. Collin Woodland, a task force coordinator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37408,110,37409,37410,9216,9223,15888,27,1887,6969,29,28,24785],"class_list":{"0":"post-75811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-collin-woodland","9":"tag-development","10":"tag-kellar-road","11":"tag-meduna-road","12":"tag-office","13":"tag-project","14":"tag-tdlr","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-texas-am-forest-service","17":"tag-texas-department-of-licensing-and-regulation","18":"tag-texas-headlines","19":"tag-texas-news","20":"tag-tfs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}