Park crew

Photos by Mark M. Hancock / © The Beaumont Enterprise

Lowell Crum jokes with crew members after a long day of removing trees with Maximum Building Systems of Marble Falls, Texas in Beaumont on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005. The crew works throughout the day removing trees from homes and sleeps in tents at Rogers Park, a city park, each evening.


Roberto Saenz (left) completes on paperwork while Lowell Crum (right) and Micah Saenz go on a grocery run for supplies.


Roderick Jackson (left) and Micah Saenz (right) eat dinner in tired silence.



Lowell Crum (right) talks with Roderick Jackson (left) after the crew finishes dinner at the park.


Roderick Jackson tries to remove ants from his tent. He said he made the one-time mistake of eating in his tent.