Texas A&M Forest Service Assistant Director Wes Moorehead has been selected for the Texas A&M University System Regents Fellow Service Award for 2019 and 2020.
During his 19-year career with Texas A&M Forest Service, Moorehead has served in multiple roles. He started in 2001 as a forest inventory and analysis forester in Kirbyville before moving into a district forester role, first in Jasper and later in Marshall. He then served as a regional forester in Nacogdoches leading all agency natural resource and protection programs across 15 counties in Central East Texas.
In 2012, Moorehead was promoted to department head of East Texas operations, overseeing all of the agency’s forestry and firefighting efforts for 12 million forested acres spanning three regions, for 250,000 family forest landowners in 54 counties, 18 districts, a dozen programs and 145 employees.
Today, Moorehead helps lead the Forest Resource Protection division tasked with wildland fire suppression.
Moorehead is one of seven professionals to receive the Regents Fellow Award this year.
The Regents Fellow Service Awards program was established in 1998 to recognize employees who have made exemplary contributions to their university or agency and to the people of Texas.
Hancock Whitney awarded the 64 Southeast Texas non-profit organizations around $1.3 million on behalf of six prominent Beaumont area foundations at the annual “Harvest of Giving” awards ceremony.
Presented on behalf of the Helen G. Bell Charitable Trust, H.E. & Kate Dishman Charitable Foundation Trust, Eva Dujay Foundation-Mary Harold Medical Trust, H.H. & Edna Houseman Charitable Trust, Roy & M. Permenter Charitable Foundation and B.A. & Elinor Steinhagen Benevolent Trust, the grants support organizations committed to enhancing arts, community services, education, health, and social welfare.
Grant recipients by category include:
Arts: Art Museum of Southeast Texas; Art Studio, Inc.; Babe Didrikson Zaharias Foundation; Beaumont Children’s Museum; KVLU; Port Arthur Historical Society; Southeast Texas Arts Council; Symphony of Southeast Texas; Symphony League of Beaumont; Texas Energy Museum; Young Audiences of Southeast Texas
Community Services: American National Red Cross; Beaumont Farmers Market; Big Thicket Association; Boy Scouts of America, Three Rivers Council; Child Abuse & Forensic Service, Inc.; Crime Stoppers of Southeast Texas; Dragon Lady Outdoor Adventures; Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council; Mothers Against Drunk Driving; Neches River Festival; Nederland Masonic Lodge #1368; Orange Lions Club; Pinehurst Volunteer Fire Department; Southeast Texas Nonprofit Development Center
Education: Jr. Achievement-Golden Triangle; Monsignor Kelly Catholic High School; St. Anthony Cathedral School; St. Catherine of Siena Catholic School; Vidor Independent School District
Health: Anayat House, Inc.; Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas Foundation; Birthright of Beaumont; CHRISTUS Health Foundation of Southeast Texas; Family Services; Hospice Care Team, Inc. dba Heart of Texas Hospice; Julie Rogers “Gift of Life” Program; Legacy Community Health; Lifeshare Blood Centers; Nutrition & Services for Seniors; Rape & Suicide Crisis Center of Southeast Texas; The Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Houston-Galveston; RISE Center for Independent Living; Shorkey Education & Rehabilitation Center; Special Olympics Texas; Surviving Parents of Southeast Texas; University of Texas Health Science Center
Social Welfare: Boys’ Haven of America; Buckner Children and Family Services; CASA of Southeast Texas; CASA of the Sabine Neches Region; Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas; Garth House/Micke Mehaffy Children’s Advocacy Program, Inc.; IEA-Inspire, Encourage, Achieve; Orange Christian Services; Salvation Army—Port Arthur; Sleep in Heavenly Peace, Inc.; Some Other Place; Southeast Texas Family Resource Center; Southeast Texas Food Bank; St. Luke Mission Baptist Church; Stable—Spirit; United Christian Care Center of Vidor; United Way of Beaumont and North Jefferson County
