News - January 2021

Rex Benham
‘It keeps you busy’: Decades managing East Texas forests connect alumnus with the land

It’s been 40 years since Rex Benham (BSFR ’82) traded the rolling hills of Georgia with the open skies of East Texas, but he feels he got a good deal in the end. “Texas isn’t all that different from Georgia,” says Benham, who manages about 240,000 acres of pine stands for Resource Management Service LLC (RMS) as an area manager. “I get back to Georgia every so often to visit family, but I like Texas just fine.” A native of Cartersville, Georgia…

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