That’s when he enrolled at the University of Florida College of Agricultural and Life Sciences to major in forest resources and conservation. He started out studying civil engineering, but soon realized working in the woods was still his passion.
I knew that wasn’t ideal if I wanted to have a family one day.” Even on the weekends, you’re tending to your equipment. You just date your wife,’” Nolan recalls. “She told me, ‘When you’re a logger, you’re married to logging. There was no doubt a career in the forest was the right fit for Nolan, but some advice from his mother stuck with him. “I always enjoyed the ‘grind’ of working in the woods.” Choosing Forestry College As I got older, I would run the cut down machines and load logs,” Nolan recalls. The business eventually passed down to Nolan’s grandfather, and then to his father.
It all started when his great-grandfather started a logging company in their hometown of Lake Butler, Florida. Nolan is the fourth generation in his family to work in the forest. “Instead of spring break, I went to the woods and made money,” recalls the Rayonier technical forester. If you want to know about Nolan Ward’s work ethic, just ask how he spent his school vacations as a kid. The University of Florida graduate shares what it was like growing up in a logging family, and what made him choose to become a forester.
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