{"id":583155,"date":"2017-01-31T15:39:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T21:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=583155"},"modified":"2017-02-01T14:44:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T20:44:19","slug":"texas-forestry-official-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=583155","title":{"rendered":"Texas Forestry Official Retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/01\/Ron-Hufford.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/01\/Ron-Hufford.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-583157\" \/><\/a>LUFKIN &#8211; The Texas Forestry Association is announcing that Ron Hufford, Executive Director, will retire by the end of the year. Hufford has been the association&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;s Forest Resources and Environmental Division.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A news release from the Association quotes Hufford as saying, &#8220;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&#8217;ll be out there among the trees, spending time with my wife and my children and sharing that passion with my grandchildren.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUFKIN &#8211; The Texas Forestry Association is announcing that Ron Hufford, Executive Director, will retire by the end of the year. Hufford has been the association&#8217;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&#8217;s umbrella to bring together the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=583155\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas Forestry Official Retiring<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":583157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 16:11:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583158,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583155\/revisions\/583158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/583157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}