Early Career
Allen was actually born Allen Dowling, but was adopted when he was ten and kept his birth name as his middle name. Allen Nease graduated from North Carolina State University and went to work with the US Forest Service in the Apalachicola National Forest where he planted trees, supervised timber sales and fought “redneck poachers” who were undermining his efforts. In 1940 he was hired by the Florida Division of Forestry as the first County Forester in the state, selling the need for forest and soil conservation all the way from Suwannee County, Florida to Washington County, Florida.
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