Oliver D. Diller
Ohio’s Forest Resources, Progress Report Based on a Survey Conducted during 1933-1943 (1944)
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station Forestry Publication
Courtesy of John E. Dorka

The Ohio Forest Survey was the third federal New Deal program to greatly benefit Ohio’s forest resources. As part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), this project surveyed all of Ohio’s forests from 1937 to 1944. The survey was the first of its kind and was conducted under the leadership of Oliver D. Diller, Associate Forester with the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station and Assistant Professor of Forestry with The Ohio State University. The project resulted in this landmark report which established a benchmark to which state forest programs are compared to this day.