Nathaniel "Nate" Rogers Dickinson (January 14, 1932 – June 15, 2011) was an American wildlife biologist, and author of ''Common Sense Wildlife Management: Discourses on Personal Experiences'', was published in 1993 by Settle Hill Publishing.

Early life

Dickinson was born in New York City to painter,

Sidney Dickinson Sidney (sometimes Sydney) Edward Dickinson (November 28, 1890 – April, 1980) was an American painter. Dickinson was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, and was the son of a Congregationalist minister, Charles H. Dickinson. His parents moved freq ...

and Mary Watson Dickinson and raised and educated in Pleasantville, N.Y. He graduated from

Amherst College Amherst College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher educatio ...

in 1953 and received a master's degree in wildlife management from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

in 1955. After two years in the army as a signal corps cryptographer, he served as a wildlife biologist in Maine and in 1961 left to become a big game project leader for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.Amherst College Obituary
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American environmentalists American non-fiction environmental writers Amherst College alumni Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences alumni Writers from New York City 1932 births 2011 deaths Scientists from New York (state) 20th-century American biologists 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers {{US-biologist-stub