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Outside Editor

A native of South Arkansas, Nathan’s love affair with everything outside came from his grandmother, an avid outdoorswoman who canned chicken and identified trees with Nathan under her wing. He studied forestry at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, a small logging town in his home state, and later moved to West Virginia University, where he earned a master’s in forestry and a doctorate in forest resources science. Nathan is a research forester at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, where he has worked since March 2011. Nathan and his wife, Heather, live on a seven-acre stretch of wooded land known as Beane Farm. They share it with three dogs, a cat and 14 chickens. Nathan also has raised two hogs on his land. His other outdoor hobbies are seemingly endless — beekeeping, fishing, gardening, wood-turning, training a squirrel dog, growing hops, composting, brewing beer and making mead and hunting bears, alligators, turkeys, hogs, deer and squirrels. Nathan shares his many outdoor adventures as The ’Sip’s Outside editor.