State Forester Joe Fox on Tuesday was elected president of the National Association of State Foresters, the state Department of Agriculture said in a news release.
Fox, who was appointed state forester in 2012, previously was director of conservation forestry in Arkansas for The Nature Conservancy.
Fox is a native Arkansan who worked as a procurement forester in a family-owned lumber business in Pine Bluff and Sheridan for more than 20 years, the state Agriculture Department said. He also is a former president of the Arkansas Forestry Association, which is the industry group for foresters, and a former chairman of the Arkansas Forestry Commission, a state panel.
Fox lives in Little Rock.