http://beaumontenterprise.mycapture.com/mycapture/category.asp?CategoryID=65680 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00 CST en-us http://beaumontenterprise.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1386420&CategoryID=65680 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00 CST
Rogers Park is one site to drop used Christmas trees. The trees will be recycled into mulch that will be given away at the city landfill on Saturday mornings.
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12/28/2011
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The Ray Stoker Jr. ferry carries passengers to the Bolivar Peninsula in Galveston County. The U.S. Coast Guard has raised its estimated weight of the average adult passenger. Will that mean longer waits in line for the ferry? A Texas Department of Transportation spokesman says it shouldn’t, as the vessels rarely reach their load limit.
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12/27/2011
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Fog envelopes the San Jacinto Building in downtown Beaumont Friday morning.
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12/16/2011
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While leaf peeping almost is a sport in the northeastern part of the country, Texas also has opportunities for autumn color watchers. Trees, bushes and vines transform from green to a brilliantly-colored landscape. The peak time to watch for leaf color changes in Southeast Texas is now. Temperature, light, and water influence the intensity and duration of the fall display. This year’s drought and heat have impacted the fall foliage by forcing some trees to turn and drop most of their leaves before having time to develop brilliant colors. But pockets of autumn splendor can still be found.
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11/19/2011
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The state has invoked junior water rights restrictions on the Neches River, which means water rights holders whose claims to river water were made later than the senior rights holders cannot draw water during the drought.
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11/16/2011
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Leroy Guillory watches his lines for signs of a nibble at the Keith Lake Fish Pass on Texas 87 near Sabine Pass.
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11/6/2011
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Before trying to take photographs of Jupiter, Bill Christian, of Lumberton, adjusts the position of the 36-inch wide Gueymard Research Telescope to put the planet in the center of his eyepiece. When the sky darkens and the stars begin to shine, all white lights are put out and only low levels of red light are allowed, otherwise night vision, which is needed, is lost.
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11/2/2011
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The McFaddin shoreline restoration plans that have been in limbo because of funding difficulties for months are starting to move again, with construction on a dune system expected to begin within six months.
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10/31/2011
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Patrick Donart, director of Beaumont Public Works, walks over a crack on Langham Road created by drought. The city is repairing roads damaged by lack of moisture. Below, Donart measures how severely the road surface has cracked.
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10/30/2011
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With a lack of rain in recent months, many local ranchers have resorted to purchasing hay from Louisiana and other states that experienced a wetter summer. Monroe Wilkins, left, is currently baling hay for rancher Will McNeill.
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10/21/2011
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A cold front is expected to roll through Southeast Texas today and should bring lows in the 40s. The front will also help to rid the area of mosquitoes and love bugs.
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10/18/2011
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Jim Mathews, Piney Woods vineyard manager, looks over a plot of Muscadine grapevines. Small businesses like his are having a tough time weathering the drought.
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10/14/2011
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Water levels at Toledo Bend Reservoir have been reaching record lows because of the lack of rain and the ongoing statewide drought. The lake level is currently 12.5 feet below full.
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10/13/2011
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Patchy showers Sunday night left a few puddles around Beaumont Monday morning.
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10/11/2011
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Local amateur archeologist Bruce Lockett is convinced that historic artifacts as well as remains of Mexican soldiers are lying at the bottom of Peggy Lake at the site of the Battle of San Jacinto. Lockett stands at the edge of the lake in La Porte, holding a map of the battleground.
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9/26/2011
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Drivers wait to qualify for the Southern Professional Outboard Racing Tour tunnel boat races in Orange on Saturday. The festival continues today and includes boat races, vendor booths, a petting zoo and water slides.
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9/25/2011
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A Robinson R22 helicopter, piloted by Mark Shimek, does a search Wednesday afternoon at Pipkin Ranch in south Jefferson County for feral hogs.
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9/22/2011
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The Sam Rayburn Reservoir used to come up close to the asphalt line at Twin Dikes Park boat ramp.
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9/18/2011
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Salvatore Rangel cuts down a drought-stricken tree Tuesday that threatened power lines on Gladys Avenue in Beaumont.
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9/7/2011
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Willy Jim Rush, Jr. rides his horse, Cash, as his dog, Lady, follows during the beautiful Labor Day weather at Tyrrell Park in Beaumont on Monday.
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9/6/2011
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Pollen from ragweed and other weeds prevalent in Southeast Texas might not be as bad this year thanks to the drought.
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8/29/2011
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To spend four days in the bottom of the world’s biggest hole, to wade in the Colorado River, to camp under the stars, to eat around a campfire with my sons, and then climb out. It sounded like a dream come true.
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8/27/2011
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These clouds over Beaumont were more show than shower.
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8/26/2011
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A fisherman slings his cast net for live bait as the sun rises over the Sabine jettys on a recent calm morning.
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8/24/2011
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Chris Moret, right, uses a net to push giant salvinia that is infested with salvinia weevils into Lake Steinhagen on Wednesday.
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8/18/2011
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Benny Rhodes is the beekeeper for Shangri La, but he also has bees in his backyard where he uses a ‘top bar’ hive. It is easy to check on the bees daily and when you want some fresh honey, it’s easy to get to. This is a simpler way for the average homeowner to keep bees at home. These hives are not suitable for commercial operations, but they will keep the average family stocked with fresh honey all year and help with the pollination of plants, flowers and fruit trees.
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8/7/2011
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Eugene Tatum, left, and Weldon Brooks catch a pocket of light rain while walking to the Eighth Street bus stop in Beaumont recently.
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8/5/2011
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A monarch butterfly lands on a flower in the Beaumont Botanical Garden at Tyrrell Park recently.
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7/27/2011
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On a recent hot afternnoon, 6-year-old Deshawn McCoy ventured to the Neches River at Colliers Ferry Recreation Area in Beaumont to cool off and enjoy a summer day.
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7/20/2011
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Ted Wilson, Texas AgriLife Research Center director, speaks to a group about hybrid rice research. The devices behind him in the plot are chambers used in a cross pollination of rice for their research. The 64th annual Field Day was held Thursday at the Texas AgriLife Research & Extension Center west of Beaumont. Part of the morning was taken up with tours of the research plots with talks at various stops.
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7/17/2011
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A school of 250-to 300-pound bull sharks close in on a redfish being caught in the Gulf of Mexico out of Sabine Pass.
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7/6/2011
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Joe Lopez isn’t bothered by the Texas heat or air quality on his usual two-mile run.
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7/6/2011
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A fire earlier this month resulted in a burned out landscape in Honey Island. As of Friday, a Texas Forest Service spokesman said there were no active wildfires in the area.
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7/2/2011
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Travelers make their way down MLK Boulevard near Lamar University during a brief shower that passed through Beaumont on Friday.
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7/2/2011
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Texas beaches ranked 17th for cleanliness among 30 coastal counties. Among other tests, the study researched bacteria levels in water and state funding. Suzi Hayne and Scott Johnson, both of Houston, enjoy the shade of two umbrellas at Crystal Beach.
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6/30/2011
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Neesie Schaeffer, left, and Annie Schaeffer embrace Tuesday’s heat while walking laps around the West Brook track. Experts recommend exercising very early or late in the day if you plan to be outside in order to avoid heat exhaustion.
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6/29/2011
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A man tries to jump a puddle of water in front of the Jefferson County Courthouse during a downpour last week. That scene is unlikely to be repeated this week, according to forecasters.
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6/28/2011
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A lone bicycle rider uses a trusty umbrella as he cruises through downtown Beaumont on Wednesday afternoon.
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6/23/2011
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Orange County, which was devastated by the storm surge from Hurricane Ike, is considering building a seawall to protect its low-lying areas the way this one protects Port Arthur.
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6/23/2011
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Orange County’s current protection against surges
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6/23/2011
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A great blue heron, the largest heron found in North America, soars through the late afternoon sky in the Neches River Corridor Unit of the Big Thicket recently.
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6/22/2011
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A man gets drenched while crossing North 14th Street in Beaumont during a brief downpour Tuesday.
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6/22/2011
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The boat pass at the Lower Neches Valley Authority’s Saltwater Barrier on the Neches River has been closed most of the summer and the LNVA is asking boaters to know which side of the barrier they want to boat on so they can conserve water by not having to open the pass.
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6/22/2011
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6/21/2011
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A column of smoke builds up on a wildfire Saturday that has scorched about 800 to 1,000 acres in Jasper County. It is burning east of Hwy 63 near County Road 82.
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6/19/2011
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Gator Country employee Damon Bailey pulls an alligator from a culvert in a demonstration on how experts remove the wayward reptiles from a yard or business. The drought has alligators in search of water — making them more likely to cross paths with humans.
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6/16/2011
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Firefighters battled a fire in an old landfill in Nederland Tuesday.
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6/15/2011
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Former NASA astronaut Bernard Harris, left, visited students attending the summer science camp bearing his name at the Shangri La Botanical Gardens in Orange Tuesday. Not one to let kids have all the fun, he grabbed a butterfly net and joined Jessica Lin, middle, and Angelica Rocha, right, on a critter hunt. They had spotted crickets and were chasing them to catch and put into a jar.
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6/15/2011
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Robert Carroll hoses down his roof Wednesday as Clayton Hutson looks out the door as a wildfire approaches their home on FM 1003 in Hardin County.
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6/9/2011
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A great egret recently fed her chick at Shangri La in Orange.
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6/8/2011
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James Gentz Jr. raises longhorn cattle on pasture grass in Winnie. He drilled a water well because longhorns can drink 25 to 30 gallons a day in one of his pastures and continued drought has made water scarce. This concrete trough will be able to continuously hold 400 gallons of water because of an automatic refill valve. Currently, his father refills the tank and pools during the day using a generator on a pump.
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6/8/2011
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Paul Fontenot, equipment operator with the city of Beaumont’s parks and recreation department, sprays the young trees along Calder Avenue planted last year. The trees have been stressed by drought, even with Monday’s downpour.
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6/8/2011
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An afternoon downpour moved over downtown Beaumont on Monday. Will the change in the weather last long enough to help parched Southeast Texas?
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6/7/2011
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Firefighters battled a forest fire of more than 400 acres in Liberty County near Rye on Monday.
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6/7/2011
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Steve Edwards walks along a pier next to a boat ramp looking at the water level in one of the ponds on land his family owns near Winnie. The water normally would be up to the bottom of the side plank attached to the pilings.
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6/6/2011
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Blowups like this one on FM 1663 keep transportation department crews busy all summer.
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6/5/2011
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Josh Myers, a firefighter with the Mississippi Forestry Commission, stands atop a Cat D5G bulldozer that uses an eightfoot blade and plow to dig fire lines or fuel breaks on wildland fires. Myers, along with firefighters from California, Oregon and Georgia, is part of an initial attack group stationed at the Texas Forest Service district office in Kountze.
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6/5/2011
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A car’s external thermometer reads 100 degrees while a Texas Department of Public Safety road warning sign announces the arrival of hurricane season about 1 p.m. Thursday. The Gulf of Mexico, South Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea need temperatures of 80 degrees or warmer for tropical storms to form, though higher temperatures don’t always indicate active hurricane seasons, said Donovan Landreneau, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
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6/3/2011
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According to the Five Point Credit Union, temperatures reached 108 on Thursday on Dowlen in Beaumont.
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6/3/2011
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Find a stick or a branch that is 4 to 5 feet long. Cut a piece of fishing line that is at least two feet longer than the pole branch. Tie one end of the line to the end of the pole. You can make a bobber out of a cork and a rubber band by tightly wrapping the rubber band around the cork.
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6/3/2011
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With temperatures near 100 degrees Thursday, AVAdek employee Roberto Jimenez of Houston stays hydrated while installing a new shaded bus stop for BMT near Sarah and Fourth streets. Temperatures hit 102 on Thursday, breaking a 100-year-old record.
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6/3/2011
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Four men on a barge, covered with empty oyster shells, maneuvered by Ben Nelson in a crew boat, use high pressure water hoses to blow the shells back into Trinity Bay over an oyster bed. The shell was part of the cultch material that helps create more spawning beds for the oysters. Drought in Texas and heavy rainfall in Louisiana is expected to affect this season’s harvest.
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6/2/2011
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Robert Taylor stands near the Evadale wildfire that almost claimed his mother-in-law’s home. Flames were within 100 yards of the building.
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5/31/2011
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Will Mulligan of Beaumont pulls away from the ramp at the Beaumont Yacht Club recently.
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5/27/2011
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Contract workers prepare for fall pine seeding off County Road 826 in Jasper County. The tractor removes stumps, digs trenches and raises the earth to prevent seeds from drowning during flooding.
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5/25/2011
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With hurricane season looming, county, state and federal entities hope to soon conduct a dune restoration project that is designed to protect the storm-dampening marshlands near McFaddin Beach.
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5/24/2011
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Due to Texas' current drought and its unique river basins, Southeast Texas should not experience water backup similar to the flooding destroying cities in Mississippi and Louisiana.
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5/19/2011
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A sign placed at the Lakeview Sandbar in the Lower Neches River Corridor Unit of the Big Thicket National Preserve warns of the strong currents that have claimed many lives. Experts say swift currents routinely catch swimmers unaware.
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5/18/2011
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Downtown Beaumont workers wind around wet roads Thursday. Dark clouds covered the area as rush hour began, dropping about a third of an inch of rain amid a drought that has Southeast Texas precipitation about a foot lower than normal.
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5/13/2011
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With the advent of summer-like weather in Southeast Texas, the time for outdoor activities, including water sports, has arrived. Here brothers Thomas, left, and Stephen Bost of Beaumont take a leisurely cruise on the Neches River on stand-up paddle boards Sunday afternoon.
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5/10/2011
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Southeast Texas rice farmers can expect yields of about 10,000 pounds per acre from two crops.
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5/4/2011
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The American Lung Association gave Jefferson County a failing grade for ozone pollution. However, the EPA classifies the area as complying with current standards for ozone pollution.
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5/4/2011
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Two wood storks, birds that have been on the endangered species list since 1984, rest on a limb in a tree at the Smith Oaks Bird Sanctuary in High Island.
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5/4/2011
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Two boats collide during a SST 45 race during the Thunder on the Neches races Sunday. Officials raised the speed limit of the race this year. Neither drives was seriously injured
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5/2/2011
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Spectators watch Saturday as racers put in the water during qualifers for The Thunder on the Neches boat races at Port Neches Park. The final events begin today at 3:30 p.m.
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5/1/2011
Album ID: 1238267]]> http://beaumontenterprise.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1234868&CategoryID=65680 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00 CST
Jefferson County Commissioners signed a $3.75 million contract with the Texas General Land Office for coastal erosion protection on McFaddin Beach.
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4/26/2011
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Students from E.K. Key Elementary in Sulphur, La., walk along a path at Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center in Orange. Students from several schools visited the gardens this week to learn about the environment in anticipation of Earth Day celebrations.
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4/22/2011
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Smoke rises from the burned out landscape on Gore Store Road in Village Mills on Tuesday. Thousands of East Texas acres have burned.
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4/20/2011
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This is the eastern facing side of the trunk of the Madonna Tree, a hollowed out cypress tree in the Cooks Lake area of Pine Island Bayou in the Lower Neches River Corridor Unit of the Big Thicket National Preserve.
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4/20/2011
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An aerial view of some of the wildfires that have burned about 7,500 acres of Hardin County forest land since Saturday. Volunteer firefighters and contractors work alongside the Texas Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to get the fires under control.
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4/19/2011
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David McPherson looks Monday at a map of Hardin County that was used by officials to battle the wildfire.
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4/19/2011
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An uncontrolled marsh fire filled Nederland’s skies with smoke Sunday as volunteer firefighters kept a close eye on the blaze.
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4/18/2011
Album ID: 1229624]]> http://beaumontenterprise.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1229618&CategoryID=65680 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00 CST
Volunteer firefighters battle a wildfire Sunday in Hardin County on Gore Store Road in an attempt to extinguish the blaze before it destroyed any homes. At least 5,500 acres were scorched in the blaze. As of Sunday night no injuries were reported and no homes were damaged.
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4/18/2011
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The Silsbee Volunteer Fire Department blocks access to Gore Store Road near Silsbee on Saturday because of a wildfire.
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4/17/2011
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Amateur anglers will gather at the Sam Rayburn Reservoir this weekend for the 27th Big Bass Splash tournament.
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4/15/2011
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Crews from the Texas Forest Service set in place a backburn to contain a wildfire that covered about 800 acres in Hardin County on Wednesday.
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4/15/2011
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Rigoberto Arellano waters oak trees at Al Cook Nursury in Beaumont on Monday. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor shows 98 percent of Texas is in a drought.
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4/12/2011
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St. Mark’s Episcopal Church is transforming the bare patch of ground where the YWCA once stood into the Mary and Millie Park Memorial Garden, named by donor Marvin Park, in honor of his two late wives. Three live oaks will be a focal point of the garden next to the church.
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4/9/2011
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Drainage ditches, like this one in South County, are cleared of debris when needed to make sure water flow continues.
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4/7/2011
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A bee buzzes around a patch of bluebonnets in Nederland on Friday.
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4/6/2011
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Randy Wheat practices for a race in his drag boat on the Neches River in Beaumont. Wildlife officials recommend boaters clean the bottom of their boats to avoid spreading invasive species from one waterway to another.
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4/5/2011
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A target shooter participates in the ’Shoot Out at the LIT Corral’ at the 1 in 100 Gun Club in Lumberton on Saturday.
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4/3/2011
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Though the state stopped resurfacing FM 105 in southern Orange County, there are plans to completely rebuild the highway once money is available.
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4/3/2011
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Teofilo Oliva-Gomez, a longtime employee with Al Cook’s Nursery and Landscaping in Beaumont, displays the rich planting soil customers request for their gardening projects.
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3/27/2011
Album ID: 1201004]]> http://beaumontenterprise.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1199133&CategoryID=65680 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00 CST
Ants build up their mounds as high as possible and close to heat-retaining sources in order to stay warm.
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3/24/2011
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Some of the symmetry found in nature is evident in this frond from a palmetto palm in the Violet’s Garden section of the Beaumont Botanical Gardens at Tyrrell Park.
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3/23/2011
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Geese gather near a pond on 11th Street. The birds can sometimes be seen waddling along Delaware Street.
1 photo(s)
3/16/2011
Album ID: 1193311]]> http://beaumontenterprise.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1189745&CategoryID=65680 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00 CST
A Texas Department of Transportation project is slated to smooth out 34 railroad crossings, like this crossing on Seventh Street near Interstate 10, that have been damaged by heavy trucks.
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3/11/2011
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Bluebonnets are a common sight along Texas highways. This year’s display of wildflowers won’t be as fruitful as last year because of lack of rain in the fall.
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3/9/2011
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Nothing like meeting up with friends and sharing a meal together as these friends did on a recent wet, cold morning after the feeding trough was filled with fresh bird seeds.
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3/9/2011
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Michelle Chappell, the new Texas Point Wildlife Refuge manager, cuts strings tied to crabbing docks built on the lakes inside McFaddin Wildlife Refuge. Lines are not supposed to be left on the docks because alligators get tangled in them.
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3/6/2011
Album ID: 1185869]]> http://beaumontenterprise.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1182930&CategoryID=65680 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00 CST
A bed of cypress knees pokes up from a dry bed in the Big Thicket National Preserve near Kountze on Sunday. The park offers approximately 40 miles of trails for hiking, bird watching, kayaking and biking.
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3/2/2011
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Washington Boulevard between the railroad tracks and Fourth Street in Beaumont recently was resurfaced.
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3/1/2011
Album ID: 1182115]]> http://beaumontenterprise.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1176841&CategoryID=65680 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00 CST
Scott Jarnagin looks out onto an area of Laguna Harbor property that his company recently took over, where 160 ‘green’ homes are planned around a future marina. Sustainable Energy Properties Inc., a Houston based company, has low-carbon projects slated for Southeast Texas, including Bolivar and Beaumont developments. Part of the Bolivar project includes a sustainable waste disposal and power generation facility.
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2/22/2011
Album ID: 1176841]]> http://beaumontenterprise.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1175224&CategoryID=65680 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:00 CST
A heron eats a small snake in the J.D. Murphree wetlands between Port Arthur and Sabine Pass. Damaged by Hurricane Ike, the wetlands are being restored with silt dredged from the Sabine-Neches Waterway.
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2/19/2011
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The Gulf Terrace Hike and Bike Trail in Beaumont is a 3.5-mile trail that opened in 2008. The trail remains one of Beaumont’s most popular recreational trails.
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2/17/2011
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A fog rolls into the Beaumont Municipal Athletic Complex late Monday night.
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2/16/2011
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Liz Fontenot performs a belly dancing show during a Polar HOG Ride on Sunday.
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2/14/2011
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With reasons ranging from Hurricane Ike to excellent breeding conditions, the area’s hawk population is increasing the Audobon Society says. A hawk sits perched in a tree line near Cardinal Drive and Avenue A.
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2/13/2011
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Many plants in the area are still suffering the effects of last week’s cold snap, and now they’re in for more frost.
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2/10/2011
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Wednesday’s showers came with a cold blast that’s expected to chill Southeast Texas the rest of the week.
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2/10/2011
Album ID: 1169575]]> http://beaumontenterprise.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1168147&CategoryID=65680 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:00 CST
A recent Texas Supreme Court opinion issued in a case involving a West Galveston beach property has set a precedent that could potentially undercut the way the Texas Open Beaches Act has been enforced for the past 50 years and could restrict beach access to the public. In the past,Texas coastal beaches were considered ‘rolling easements’ defined by the line of vegetation, but the court opinion called that unconstitutional in the case of major erosion events like Hurricane Ike.
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2/8/2011
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The first vehicles allowed over the Veterans Memorial Bridge at 12:30 p.m. Friday follow two Texas Department of Transportation sand and salt trucks up the Port Arthur side.
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2/5/2011
Album ID: 1166229]]> http://beaumontenterprise.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1166977&CategoryID=65680 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:00 CST
Traffic going both directions on Interstate 10 in Beaumont was at a standstill Friday morning because of icy conditions on bridges and overpasses.
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2/5/2011
Album ID: 1166977]]> http://beaumontenterprise.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1166738&CategoryID=65680 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00 CST
Michael O’Keefe and his son, Collin, 6, wheel out a load of firewood they bought at M&D Supply in Beaumont to keep warm while below freezing temperatures hit Southeast Texas.
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2/4/2011
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Using a front-end loader to dump sand in the parking lot of HEB Plus on Dowlen Road, Walter Galvez takes a load closer to the store entrance. The prep work aims to keep the parking lot safer to drive or walk on.
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2/4/2011
Album ID: 1166736]]> http://beaumontenterprise.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1164693&CategoryID=65680 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00 CST
Amid temperatures in the 20s Wednesday morning, 71-year-old George Fletcher splits firewood at the Fletcher Wood Yard near Kirbyville as demand for fireplace fuel increases. Southeast Texas could get snow late tonight and early Friday.
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2/3/2011
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Sub-freezing temperatures took advantage of a Lamar University fountain and entertained C.O. Wilson Middle School students with a dazzling ice sculpture. The students were visiting the campus to learn about the JASON Project.
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2/3/2011
Album ID: 1164679]]> http://beaumontenterprise.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1164158&CategoryID=65680 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00 CST
A Lamar University student bundles up and walks across campus into a strong north wind Tuesday afternoon.
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2/2/2011
Album ID: 1164158]]> http://beaumontenterprise.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1164164&CategoryID=65680 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00 CST
Brown pelicans and seagulls bask in the sunshine of a warm day at Crystal Beach last week.
1 photo(s)
2/2/2011
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On a recent evening in Beaumont, drivers on Interstate 10 traveling west had front row seats to a viewing of a spectacular winter sky at sunset.
1 photo(s)
1/20/2011
Album ID: 1156093]]> http://beaumontenterprise.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1154620&CategoryID=65680 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00 CST
A puddle stands Monday as a result from recent rainfall. The constant drizzle since early Sunday was a welcome arrival at Doguet’s Crawfish Farm in Beaumont because the oxygen from the rainwater energizes them, making them easy to catch. This week’s forecast indicates the next few days will be mild, making life more comfortable for people and crawfish.
1 photo(s)
1/18/2011
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Despite the freezing temperatures when he showed up at work Tuesday morning, Bisente Vargas, an employee with H.B. Neild and Sons Construction, climbed up to the roof of the new Pastoral Center for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Beaumont to continue laying the clay roof tiles. And the cold’s not over yet.
3 photo(s)
1/13/2011
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Emergency personnel keep watch on a marsh fire in Bridge City on Thursday.
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1/7/2011
Album ID: 1149181]]> http://beaumontenterprise.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1147553&CategoryID=65680 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:00 CST
Zachary Zachary of Spurger fishes off the jetty at Pleasure Island in Port Arthur.
1 photo(s)
1/6/2011
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