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July 23, 2025

NRI expands web tools to help protect military training spaces from incompatible development

With funding from DOD's Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation, NRI developed the new Texas Compatible Use Zones (TCUZ) Viewer (tcuz.nri.tamu.edu), the first centralized web tool to display military compatible use zones (using DOD AICUZ and ICUZ data) for active-duty installations across the state. The TCUZ Viewer helps anyone considering development near a military installation in Texas identify whether their location of interest may conflict with military operations in that area.

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July 21, 2025

Texas A&M AgriLife leaders offer New World screwworm experience

Veterans of 2016 Florida outbreak reflect on lessons learned, share insight to protect Texas livestock and wildlife

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July 16, 2025

Up to $3 million available for landowners to protect natural resources near Camp Bullis

The Camp Bullis Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) is now accepting applications from voluntary landowners interested in permanently protecting their land and natural resources through conservation easements. These tailored easements support compatible land uses, such as agriculture, wildlife habitat, and open space, that also help safeguard the military mission and training capabilities of Joint Base San Antonio–Camp Bullis.

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July 2, 2025

From Maps to Mentorship: NRI partners with Borlaug Youth

The story of Texas’s working lands, or privately owned farms, ranches, and forests, is one of rapid changes that have widespread implications for national and food security, rural economies, and the conservation of wildlife, water, and other natural resources. Over 139 million acres of valuable landscapes supporting these processes are threatened by suburbanization, rural development, and land fragmentation driven by rapid economic and population growth.

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