Paul Catlett

Project Manager

Paul serves as a Project Manager that supports the Office of the Secretary of Defense Environmental Planning and Conservation Office on the DoD Wildland Fire Program. This includes policy development, strategic planning, program analysis, research innovations, and educational initiatives. These efforts aim to ensure landscape resilience in support of sustaining the military mission.

Paul graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s degree in forestry. He worked as a forestry consultant for 7 years primarily conducting land management and prescribed fire in central and south Florida. In 1994, Paul became the Natural Resource Manager of Camp Blanding Joint Training Center, the 73,000 acre training installation for the Florida National Guard in northeast Florida. Over the past 30 years, his successes include recovery of the red cockaded woodpecker on the installation, building a wildland fire program that both suppresses 100+ wildfires and conducts 20,000 acres of prescribed fire annually, and authored the first approved Army Compatible Use Buffer program in 2003. Additionally, he facilitated one of the first landscape Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances that covers all at-risk species on Camp Blanding. Paul also served on a Type 2 Incident Management Team with the State of Florida. In October 2023, Paul retired from the State of Florida and accepted the Project Manager position with Texas A&M Natural Resource Institute.

Paul still resides in northeast Florida and enjoys time with his 4 daughters and growing family spending time adventuring on the water with family.