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Timeline PhotosDid you know that over 8 million acres (30%) of Ohio land area is forested? Families and individuals own approximately 5.8 million acres (70%) of all forest land in Ohio. This means YOU and your neighbors have the power to sustainably manage and shape the conditions of our future forests 🌳
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(Full Report: doi.org/10.2737/FS-RU-171)
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7 days ago

January 11 marks the birthday of Aldo Leopold (1887 - 1948), one of the most celebrated employees in the history of the U.S. Forest Service. He proposed what became the Gila Wilderness, the first designated Wilderness Area, while working in New Mexico. He is also remembered as the author of A Sand County Almanac (published in 1949), one of America's most influential books about conservation. The following is an excerpt:

"We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view." ...

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