Ernie Murray
Ernie Murray
east forests isolated land pieces private public surrounded texas
These are really kind of isolated pieces of forest. Most of our forests in East Texas are public land surrounded by private land.
closed creek people shelter though tried
Even though we closed the forest, (Rita) evacuees tried to find shelter in the campgrounds. At Caney Creek we are told there were 20 people in one of the buildings.
hard hunters trying
It's hard to keep hunters out of the woods. So we are trying to make everyone aware.
direct harder hit prepared sam storm
We had prepared for a direct hit on the Sam Houston, but the storm side-stepped them and hit the Sabine and Angelina harder than we anticipated.