Big Thicket National Preserve Fire Ecologist Conor McInnerney’s job literally is to put fire back into the landscape. But using fire history, science and numbers, the forest’s prescribed burns ...

Early European settlers referred to the area as “the Big Thicket” because of its lush, dense forest and canopies. But the region had been utilized for thousands of years prior by the Atakapa-Ishak, ...