Weather.com, AP, 9/25/12
AP Photo/The Daily Sentinel, Andrew D. Brosig
Chris Comer, left, holds one end of a measuring tape as daughter Zoey Comer, 4, unwinds the other end around an oak tree during Nacogdoches Naturally Family Fun Day on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center in Nacogdoches, Texas.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- An updated ground and aerial survey indicates about 301 million trees have died in rural Texas because of the 2011 drought.
The Texas A&M Forest Service said Tuesday that the figure comes from an examination of hundreds of forested plots statewide.
