KENTUCKY LAND AND TIMBER

I grew up in Illinois near St. Louis. I lived in town, but my dad owned a small farm with horses. I would go out with him and he would let me steer his van when we got to the county road near the farm. I always enjoyed the outdoors. During my teenage years a close friends father would take us camping in the Irish wilderness in Missouri. It was those camping trips that I decided I wanted to be a forester, or at least a forest ranger. I have always worked a lot (at the cost of school grades), and following high school that continued. I never thought I would get to do what I actually wanted to do. That changed when I was 20. At that point, all my work experience was in the restaurant industry. I remember going to a recruiting agency. I was burned out with the restaurant business and thought maybe they could find me something outside of this industry. The only jobs they had for me were more food industry jobs. I decided it was time for a change... My brother in law worked for a company in..

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