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Legacy of Stewardship
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5 Geology
Chapter 6 Wildlife
Chapter 7 Forestry
Chapter 8 Parks
Chapter 9 Water
Chapter 10 Coastal
Chapter 11 Soil
Chapter 12 Reclamation
Chapter 13 Lands
Chapter 14 Watercraft
Chapter 15 Oil and Gas
Chapter 16 Nature Preserves
Chapter 17 Civilian Conservation
Chapter 18 Recycling
Chapter 19 Soil and Water
Chapter 20 Administration
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A Legacy of Stewardship: The Ohio Department of Natural Resources 1949-1989

Charles C. King, Editor
December 1990

From the Foreword

By their very nature and closeness to our daily lives, natural resources are often the root causes of public controversy, economic struggles, or war itself. Sometimes they have been preserved with passion and sometimes pillaged for profit.

This book is about natural resources, and about public policy and management practices applied to them. It is the story of how one state has evolved the laws, structures, and policies to manage natural resources for public good. It is also a story about people-people who have played a major role in shaping Ohio's natural resource history.

While the fundamental course of the Department has not materially changed, its people have. The directions of the Department have also changed with constituent demands and lifestyles. Natural resources themselves are changed through the actions of people and natural evolution.

According to Robert Burns, "Nature's mighty law is change." This book is a valuable chronology of these changes.

Robert W. Teater, Ph.D.
Director, Ohio Department of Natural Resources
1975-1983