Texas Forestry Official Retiring

LUFKIN – The Texas Forestry Association is announcing that Ron Hufford, Executive Director, will retire by the end of the year. Hufford has been the association’s executive director since January, 1984. During that time Hufford established Project Learning Tree and the Teacher Conservation Institute, and developed several councils under TFA’s umbrella to bring together the diversity of the forest industry. Before joining TFA, Hufford worked with Southern Forest Products Association based in New Orleans, Louisiana as Mid-Western Field Representative before being elevated to director of Field Services, and later named the Vice President of SFPA’s Forest Resources and Environmental Division.

A news release from the Association quotes Hufford as saying, “While I am stepping away from the desk and closing the door on this chapter, I am not leaving the forest. The woods and its many benefits have been a long-time passion for me. I’ll be out there among the trees, spending time with my wife and my children and sharing that passion with my grandchildren.”