Harold Estes was appointed to our board of directors in October 2002. Mr. Estes is the President of Texas Timberjack, Inc. ("TTI"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of TreeCon Resources. He was elected as a director of TreeCon Resources in February 1996 and resigned from the TreeCon Resources board of directors in April 1997. TTI is a distributor of industrial and commercial timber and logging equipment and is also engaged in certain related timber and sawmill operations. Mr. Estes has been President of TTI since 1984, when he
acquired TTI from Eaton Corporation. Mr. Estes previously served as a director of Newton Bancshares, Inc., the parent of First National Bank of Newton (Texas), for approximately ten years until the sale of the bank in October 2001. |