The Fugitive Forester

Joel Robertson is a retired forester living near Lumpkin in southwest Georgia. After graduating from high school at Conyers, Georgia, he served three years in the U. S. Army. During that time he married Vivian Abbott from Lithonia, Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in forestry in 1962. He worked for St. Regis Paper Co. which later became Champion International Corp. managing timberland in northern Florida and Southern Georgia until his retirement in 1999. Joel and Vivian have two sons, Allen and Andrew, who each have two children.