 04/23/2011 THE ECONOMY - Fires in Texas devastate 2 million acres of ranchland, create immediate need for CATTLE FEED AND FENCING WIRE. It's the beef you eat at serious risk and severe distress. Ranchers must feed their animals and keep them in place NOW! This urgent message from affected ranchers and helping hands is being posted here by CDFE as a public service to help the American economy in time of need: Texas is burning...1,821,086 acres (as of April 20) and thousands of miles of fences burned in the past 100 days. Four new fires started yesterday and several others from previous days remain uncontained. To see a Google Earth overlay of the fires and where they are currently burning,, click on the Common Operating Picture link on the Texas Interagency Coordination Center site. Texas delegate Andy Vestal reported the fires have significantly affected the counties involved. Those rural communities' economies are largely based on livestock--beef and dairy cattle and horses. There is an immediate need for feed and hay resources. There will be a need later for fencing materials, but feeding the livestock is most pressing issue. Texas AgriLIFE Extension County agents are supporting eight local Livestock Supply Points for receiving and distributing donated feed resources. See below for the details. Feel free to contact any of these distribution points directly if you can help. If you respond to this call for assistance, please let your EDEN state point of contact know what you are doing. State POCs are asked to enter activities in the Response Notes (Event Name is "Wildfires Spring 2011") on the EDEN website. Updates on the current situation, relevant links, and supply point contact information will be posted to the EDEN Fire (Wildfire) topic page. Fisher County Livestock Supply Point Location: Fisher County Fair Grounds, Roby, TX POC Riley Barnett, County Extension Agent, Texas AgriLife Extension Service, Fisher County Office (325) 776-3259 Cell (325)338-3557 rjbarnett@ag.tamu.edu Palo Pinto & Stephens County Livestock Supply Point Location: Dempsey Heliport, 1348 Palo Pinto Hwy, Palo Pinto, TX 76484 POC Scott Mauney, County Extension Agent, Texas AgriLife Extension Service, Palo Pinto County Office (940) 659-1228 Cell (940) 659-8693 s-mauney@tamu.edu or POC Leslie Neve, County Extension Agent, Texas AgriLife Extension Service, Stephens County Satellite Location: Stephens County Ag & Community Center, Take 180 to East edge of town, turn North on County Road 245, Breckenridge, Texas Office 254-559-2313 Cell 254-246-0803 l-neve@tamu.edu Tom Green County Livestock Supply Point Location: 200 West 43rd Street, San Angelo, TX 76903 POC: Steve Sturtz, County Extension Agent, Texas AgriLIFE Extension, Tom Green County Office (325) 659-6524 Cell (325) 895-1063 s-sturtz@tamu.edu or POC: Brittni Kaczyk, Livestock Show Director, San Angelo Stock Show and Rodeo, Office (325) 653-5622 Eastland County Livestock Supply Point Location: Eastland County Fairgrounds, 475 Hwy. 3101, Eastland, TX 76448 POC Brian Perry, President of Eastland County Livestock Raisers Association (245) 631-9773 POC Heath Begeman, County Extension Agent, Texas AgriLIFE Extension, Eastland County Office (254) 629-2222 Cell (254) 629-6050 whbegeman@ag.tamu.edu Pecos County Livestock Supply Point Location: C&T Feed Store, Hwy 190 in Iraan Feed Store POC: Texas Charlie & Theresa Brown (432) 639-6029 POC: Norman Fryar, County Extension Agent, Texas AgriLIFE Extension, Pecos County Office (432) 336-2541 Email rnfryar@ag.tamu.edu Stonewall County Livestock Supply Point Location: Stonewall County Fair Grounds, Hwy 380, Aspermont, TX POC: Jason Miller, County Extension Agent, Texas AgriLIFE Extension, Stonewall County office (940) 989-3510 cell (806) 445-5056 email: jbmiller@ag.tamu.edu Jeff Davis County Livestock Supply Point Location: Evans Ranch, 1.5 mile South of Ft. Davis on Hwy 118 POC: Logan Boswell, County Extension Agent, Texas AgriLIFE Extension, Brewster/Jeff Davis Counties cell 432-249-0265 email lboswell@ag.tamu.edu and POC: Jesse Schneider, County Extension Agent, Texas AgriLIFE Extension, Presidio County Cell 432-295-0342 Email jlschneider@ag.tamu.edu On behalf of EDEN Executive Committee, Virginia Morgan, Ed.D. Alabama Cooperative Extension System Administrator III, Outreach Programs EDEN Chair 229 Duncan Hall Annex Auburn University, AL 36849 phone (334) 844-5699 cell (334) 750-3857 fax (334) 844-9650 Websites: ACES, AL EDEN Extension Disaster Education Network Blog: EDENotes |
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