Thomas G. Boggus, Director 2008-Present
• “Dream Big”
• “I don’t need a bunch of jobs, I only need one”
• “I think I just lost my job”
• “Forest Service- What are you doing out here? They don’t say that anymore!”
• “Its not the trees so much- it’s about who owns the trees”
• “We’re gonna be part of the solution”
• “I don’t go to bed worried about who’s going to run this agency”
• “I get the most kicks out of that”
• “Miraculous Mondays”
• “The dust is gonna fly”
• “I’m not a real good rearview mirror guy”
James B. Hull Jr., Director 1996-2008
• “Needed to get more into this forestry thing”
• “Haven’t regretted a bit of it”
• “I never much liked assistant anything”
• “The Green University”
• “That’s about as dull a work that you could come up with”
• “An ideal training arena”
• “Typical of state forestry agencies around the nation”
• “The highlight of our hundred years as an agency”
• “The leg up”
• “A pretty good accomplishment”
• “I just ran out of time”
• “Confidently strut around with excellence”
• “Help them get there first...”
• “I better not catch a Texas Forest Service employee knowing something that’s not available to the state”
• “I was a part of it”
• “We had no option”
• “An objective thinker”
• “Whether we needed them or not”
• “There weren’t many”
• “They didn’t tolerate us… it was expected”
Bruce R. Miles, Director 1980-1996
• “How I became a young forester”
• “A hectic, busy experience”
• “You learn something everywhere you go”
• “A bunch of old rag-tag farmers”
• “I will never tell another Aggie joke”
• “Don’t ever let this happen again”
• “Served the people of Texas very well”
• “Without question”
• “Don’t look back- something may be gaining on you”
William “Bill” E. Oates, Associate Agency Director 2008- Present
• “Been around forestry my whole life”
• “So I stayed with it”
• “Started out a junior forester”
• “For a lot of different reasons”
• “I was successful because they were successful”
• “A little rinky-dink study”
• “The boss is not always right”
• “The best part of my job is working with people”
• “It’s a business not for the faint of heart”
• “Our basic mission hasn’t changed”
• “We hired really, really great people”
• “We all need to know where we come from”
Mark Stanford, Associate Agency Director 2008- Present
• “Well my name is Mark”
• “Any job in forestry was a good job”
• “Very exciting time to be in forestry”
• “You have got to calm down”
• “Milestones”
• “All disasters begin and end at the local level”
• “What do you do when nobody’s lookin’?”
• “That is a good feeling”
• “My wish for this agency”
• “We’re Texans, we ought to be proud of it”
Dolores Stephens, Date-Date
• “I really wasn’t a very good secretary”
• “One person who meant so much to me…”
• “…and I miss them today”
• “An entirely new world”
• “Growing pains are hard”
• "She can take a challenge- so give it to her"
• “We should always have been green space, that we should always have forests and that our grand kids can walk through it”
