Forestry Stories: As Lived and Told by a Northern Indiana Forester

In Forestry Stories, longtime Indiana forester Bruce Wakeland shares a campfire-worthy collection of tales from a life in the woods.

Growing up in northern Indiana, Bruce Wakeland struggled in school, worked in the summer heat laying asphalt to pay for college, and finally entered Purdue University as a freshman already on academic probation.

"Well, there's only one major that looks good for me," he told a friend. "Forestry."

That decision would shape Wakeland's next four decades as he serve...