Roosevelt Game Preserve Headquarters Lodge and out buildings of Sky Ranch in Hobey Hollow

ID: 745 ~ Source: Shawnee State Park and Forest Collection, Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Date: 13 March 1941

This file appears in: Roosevelt Game Preserve Headquarters and "the Zoo": Ohio's First Nature Center in Hobey Hollow

Claude Stacey and Otto Ohliger relax in the sun at the Roosevelt Game Preserve Headquarters (Sky Ranch)

This file appears in: Roosevelt Game Preserve Headquarters and "the Zoo": Ohio's First Nature Center in Hobey Hollow

Roosevelt Game Preserve Headquarters and "the Zoo": Ohio's First Nature Center in Hobey Hollow

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

The headquarters for Roosevelt Game Preserve and "Zoo," established in 1922, ought to be considered Ohio's first state-operated "nature center" in what is now Shawnee State Forest. Located up…