Moon awarded National Association of State Foresters Award for Communications

COLLEGE STATION, Texas—Texas A&M Forest Service Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications, Linda Moon, received the Tom Boggus Current Achievement Award for Communications from the National Association of State Foresters (NASF) in Waimea, Hawai’i last week.

The award was presented at the NASF annual meeting. NASF awards are presented each year to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to state and private forestry and wildland fire management.

“Linda Moon has significantly contributed to the marketing and communications efforts of the Texas A&M Forest Service for nearly 20 years,” said Al Davis, Texas A&M Forest Service Director. “We are both proud and fortunate to have Linda as a leader and are honored that she is being recognized on this national platform for her outstanding work and commitment to the forest industry.”

Moon began working for Texas A&M Forest Service in 2006 as a Communications Specialist and quickly rose to become the Communications and Marketing Manager in 2008. In 2022 she was promoted to Assistant Agency Director overseeing Marketing and Communications for her selfless service and relationship-building coupled with her unique and effective leadership style.

Through Moon’s tenure at the agency she has planned, implemented, and directed strategic external and internal communications and marketing initiatives. She has also coordinated incident communications for multiple incidents, including Hurricane Harvey, and several record-breaking wildfire seasons.

Moon received the award as a national leader in forestry communications. Her impact extends far beyond Texas, with programs across the South like Urban Wood Wednesday and the Urban Forest Strike Team and the national Healthy Trees, Healthy Lives campaign.

“Moon understands the importance and benefits of natural resources conservation and that effective management ensures that urban and community forests thrive and continue to serve as essential green infrastructure for our cities and beyond,” said Davis. “And as a communicator, she helps propagate this message forward in ways that audiences can relate and utilize to take action.”

Most recently, Moon has helped develop open-source tools, resources and best practices to communicate the value of urban forests and Urban Forest Inventory and Analysis with non-forestry audiences.

This summer, Moon presented a nation-wide webinar covering the communication effort with 300 attendees registered, and assisted with in-person workshops in Baltimore, Maryland; St, Louis, Missouri; Madison-Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and coming soon in Texas.