Mary Mertz, Director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, delivers her speech celebrating 100-years of Conservation in Ohio

ID: 738 ~ Source: Scioto Historical Collection, Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Creator: Andrew Feight, Ph.D. ~ Date: 2022

This file appears in: One Hundred Years of Conservation in Shawnee State Park: Gov. Harry L. Davis and the Dedication of Ohio’s Theodore Roosevelt Preserve

This file appears in: One Hundred Years of Conservation in Shawnee State Park: Gov. Harry L. Davis and the Dedication of Ohio’s Theodore Roosevelt Preserve

One Hundred Years of Conservation in Shawnee State Park: Gov. Harry L. Davis and the Dedication of Ohio’s Theodore Roosevelt Preserve

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

The Theodore Roosevelt Preserve was dedicated at 3pm on December 5th, 1922, by Governor Harry L. Davis. It began with 20,000 acres as a "game and reforestation preserve." At the time of its…