John Hussey
Forest Distribution, Twenty-seventh Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1873)
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John Hussey delivered one of the earliest known reports on the composition and structure of Ohio forests during the 1872 convention of the Ohio State Agricultural Society. Alarmed by Ohio’s rapidly decreasing forest resources, he called for forest conservation and improved management of the remaining forests. He remarked that “We may, however, believe that the habit of destroying trees carried the settler and his sons a little too far. […] All can agree in this: the work of destroying should now give place to that of preserving and restoring.”